Hotel du Cantal
Painting by Jean Dubuffet
Hotel du Cantal is an oil on canvas painting by the French painter Jean Dubuffet, created in 1961. The work, part of a major donation made by the artist in 1967, is held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris.[1][2]
Description
The canvas depicts a cityscape which represents automobile traffic in a shopping street where are particularly noticeable the signs of a store, an adjoining hotel and a pharmacy. The style of the painting is deliberately primitive, even childlike. The street cars are presented in a very elementar style, similarly to their drivers. The cars have only two wheels, with a visible window, and appear like seen from above. Four cars are parked at the sidewalk, where a single man is seen apparently walking. A person is seen waving from the upper window of the hotel.[3]
References
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Jean Dubuffet
- Cows and Groomers (1943)
- The Cow with the Subtile Nose (1954)
- Hotel du Cantal (1961)
- Courre Merlan (Whiting Chase) (1964)
- Group of Four Trees (1972)
- Jardin d'émail (1968-1974)
- Monument au Fantôme (1977)
- La Chiffonnière (1978)
- Monument with Standing Beast (1984)
- Fondation Jean Dubuffet
- Outsider art
- School of Paris
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