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Series Title: Transfer of Assemblages

Swelled Head VI

1963

Jean Dubuffet

(French, 1901–1985)
Culture
France, 20th century
Medium
color lithograph
Support
Japan paper
Measurements
Sheet: 67 x 51 cm (26 3/8 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin, New York, through ROGOCO Foundation 1970.277
Catalogue raisonné
Webel 818
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Reports d'Assemblages (Transfer of Assemblages) Dubuffet not only worked directly on zinc lithographic plates, but also utilized lithographic transfer paper, a specially coated paper from which a design drawn with greasy lithographic crayon or ink can be transferred onto a lithographic plate. In 1961-62 Dubuffet printed some of The Phenomena plates onto transfer paper that he had cut into different shapes. The pieces were arranged to form images of distorted, yet whimsical, faces and figures. The design of each assemblage was then transferred onto a lithographic plate so that multiple impressions could be printed.
A vertically oriented color lithograph on white paper features a large, mottled gray and yellow shape centered within a thick black outline. The form suggests a face with yellow dots inside white outlines for eyes, a forked white outline nose, and an X-shaped white mouth. A textured brown band caps the top, and the shape tapers into a black base. A signature is in the lower right.

Swelled Head VI

1963

Jean Dubuffet

(French, 1901–1985)
France, 20th century

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