Jean Dubuffet

The daily challenge

Jean-Louis Prat, Thomas Wierzbinski et Déborah Lehot-Couette
Brioude, Le Doyenné, 1970

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) defied all trends in modern and contemporary art. A relentless individualist who rebelled against fine arts and institutions, he fought against a suffocating culture all his life. Refusing to be categorised, Jean Dubuffet was a writer, painter, illustrator, printmaker, sculptor, architect and musician. His inventive work is marked by multiple experimentations.

Forty years after the retrospective exhibition at the Maeght Foundation, Jean-Louis Prat invites us to rediscover the work of this extraordinary artist who, from 1942 to 1985, never ceased to challenge himself to produce a deeply original work.

Through a rich selection of paintings, sculptures, prints and illustrated books, the exhibition entitled Jean Dubuffet: The Daily Challenge bears witness to the vitality and modernity of this unique body of work, which still manages to surprise us today.

Dubuffet Monumental

Carnet d'exposition #1

Sophie Webel et Déborah Lehot-Couette
Paris, Fondation Dubuffet, 1970

The team of Fondation Dubuffet is pleased to present to you its new collection of exhibition booklets. Published by the Fondation, each book will complement our exhibitions.

This first issue, Dubuffet Monumental, accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on show in Paris from February 12 to July 11 2025.

In this book, you will rediscover all the texts, the list of Jean Dubuffet’s works which are to be found in the public space, in France and abroad, color reproductions of his sculptures, archival documentation and photographic views of the exhibition.

Graphic design: Bernard Lagacé and Lysandre Le Cléac'h

Sculptures monumentales, Tour aux figures et autres

Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet - Fascicule XXXIX
Paris, Fondation Dubuffet, 1970

Fascicule XXIX Sculptures monumentales, Tour aux figures et autres", latest volume of the Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet, is finally out!

This new volume lists all of Jean Dubuffet’s monumental sculptures made around the world since 1968 until today. Fully illustrated in color, this volume will allow you to discover the monumental works created during the artist’s life, as well as after his death, under the supervision of the Fondation Dubuffet.

This volume is available at the bookshop of Fondation Dubuffet and online on the website of Galerie Lelong.

Habitats, Closerie Falbala, Salon d'été

(1969-1977)

Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet - fascicule XXXI
Introduction by Jean Dubuffet
Paris, Minuit, 1970

Out of print since many months, fascicule XXXI of the Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet has been republished in a new edition, updated by the Fondation Dubuffet. This volume, "Habitats, Closerie Falbala, Salon d'été", puts the emphasis on the construction of the Closerie and Villa Falbala, between 1973 and 1976.

This volume is available at the bookshop of Fondation Dubuffet and online on the website of Galerie Lelong.

Fondation Dubuffet

Françoise Bonnefoy
Paris, nouvelles éditions Scala, 1970

Published for the 50th anniversary of the Dubuffet Foundation, this new opus of the collection ‘L'esprit du lieu’ printed by Scala invites the reader to discover the two sites of the institution. One is in Paris, in a 19th century private mansion that regularly presents temporary exhibitions. The other one is in Périgny-sur-Yerres and presents Jean Dubuffet's major work, the Closerie Falbabla.