Corps de dame jaspé (Marbleized Body of a Lady)

1950

Jean Dubuffet

Painter, French, 1901 - 1985

A roughly textured, peachy form nearly fills this vertical, abstract painting. A tiny head facing our left in profile and two spindly arms, elbows facing in, suggest this is a person’s body, but the proportions are bulbous and exaggerated. Two stubby legs extend off the lower edge of the canvas. The face has a long, protruding nose, and the eye and slash of the mouth are drawn with slightly darker pink. The background is mottled with darker, terracotta-brown and nickel gray. The artist signed the painting in the lower left corner, “J. Dubuffet 50.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil and sand on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Stephen Hahn Family Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 100.9 x 73.5 cm (39 3/4 x 28 15/16 in.)
    framed: 128.9 x 101.6 x 8.9 cm (50 3/4 x 40 x 3 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.29.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfonso Ossorio [1916-1990], East Hampton.[1] Stephen Hahn, Santa Barbara, California; gift (partial and promised) 1995 to NGA; gift completed 2012.
[1] According to Klaus Ottmann and Dorothy Kosinski (Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet, exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York. New Haven and London, 2013: 145, no. 46.)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1999

  • Jean Dubuffet: Figuren und Köpfe. Auf der Suche nach einer Gegenkultur [Jean Dubuffet: Figures and Heads. Searching for a counter-culture], Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, 1999, no. 22, repro.

2001

  • Jean Dubuffet, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2001, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2013

  • Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet, The Phillips Collection, Washington; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, 2013, no. 46, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: J. Dubuffet / 50

Wikidata ID

Q20194337

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