View of Paris with Furtive Pedestrians
A bright mosaic of colors imitates the crude style of outsider art in Dubuffet's Parisian street scene. In 1923 Dubuffet became interested in the art of the mentally ill, after having read Hans Prinzhorn's Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (Pictures of the Mentally Ill, 1922). Many years later, in 1945, he started collecting these pictures, which he called Art Brut (Raw Art).
Artwork Details
- Title: View of Paris with Furtive Pedestrians
- Artist: Jean Dubuffet (French, Le Havre 1901–1985 Paris)
- Date: 1944
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 35 × 45 5/8 in. (88.9 × 115.9 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
- Object Number: 1999.363.19
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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