1901-1985 - At his death in 1985. at the age of 84, Jean Dubuffet was acknowledged to be one of the most important artists of the post-war generation. A wine merchant turned polemicist turned art rebel, the 43-
year-old Dubuffet had his first one-man show in Paris in 1944, with the Germans barely departed. Violently anti-tradition at a time when many of the French longed for a return to normalcy, Dubuffet antagonized the art establishment with his dynamic style and his articulate arguments justifying his new way of thinking.
1901-1985 - At his death in 1985. at the age of 84, Jean Dubuffet was acknowledged to be one of the most important artists of the post-war generation. A wine merchant turned polemicist turned art rebel, the 43-
year-old Dubuffet had his first one-man show in Paris in 1944, with the Germans barely departed. Violently anti-tradition at a time when many of the French longed for a return to normalcy, Dubuffet antagonized the art establishment with his dynamic style and his articulate arguments justifying his new way of thinking.
