Lady with Umbrella

This work was made after Dubuffet had relocated to Vence in the south of France due to his wife’s health. Not having as much room to work as he normally did, he began to put together collages of prints, which he described as: “…landscapes evoking for the most part some stretch of naked and stony ground, rather undefined. The figures haunting them, by their rather fantastic figuration, by the dancing and jumping attitudes given to them, and from which results, I feel, a sense of instantaneity (of the immediate capture of a transitory moment) seem to me to have the effect of precipitating the place in the midst of which they are found into a very special, fairy-like atmosphere.”