Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

“Dubuffet’s images, although endowed with an undeniable concrete presence, are in fact the transcription of illusions. Concrete reality is not their source. Although figurative in form, the work insists on deliberate delusions to which the artist has given shape, substance, form and presence” (M. Rowell, Jean Dubuffet: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1970, p. 27).