Jean Dubuffet The Last Two Years at PACE GALLERY

Jean Dubuffet is perhaps one of the most highly regarded Postwar European artists, with a breadth of influence far exceeding his reputation as a painter. As the founder and theoretician of Art Brut, his ideas regarding the uncivilized and low art revolutionized the notion of what has artistic relevance, and what lies inside and outside the aesthetic pale. The Last Two Years is a summation of Dubuffet s mastery of painterly gesture, a reduction of means, and an embrace of abstraction, albeit with