(Le Havre 1901–1985 Paris)
Buisson au papillon (Assemblage), 1959, signed and dated 59; signed and dated on the reverse, botanical elements collage (mountain sage, wild convolvulus, fig tree, plane tree), 31 x 34 cm, framed

We are grateful to Fondation Dubuffet, Paris for the assistance with cataloguing this work

Provenance:
Jean Planque Collection, Paris
Galerie Bourdon, Paris
Suzanne Cizey Collection, Paris
Galerie Ile de France, Paris
Paride Accetti Collection, Milan (label on the reverse)
Galleria Blu, Milan (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection (from the late 1980s)

Exhibited:
London, Eléments botaniques, Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery,
August-December 1959, exh. cat. no. 32 with ill.
Milan, Jarry e la patafisica: arte, letteratura, spettacolo, Palazzo Reale, 1983, exh. cat. p. 83 with ill.
Venice, Arte e Scienza, XLII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, 1986, exh. cat. p. 129
Milan, Jean Dubuffet: opere 1948–1981, Galleria Blu,
17 December 1993–19 March 1994, exh. cat, with ill.

Literature:
M. Loreau, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet,
Fascicule XVII: Matérialogies, Weber Editeur, Switzerland 1969,
no. 36 with ill. no. 34

Art should be born from the materials.
Jean Dubuffet

With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material [butterfly wings, around 1955] – the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable –
with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation,
I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and
patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into
everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous,
universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.
Jean Dubuffet