Jean Dubuffet Works Online
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Original works by Jean Dubuffet available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Many works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
Jean Dubuffet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
3 works by Jean Dubuffet online
Jean Dubuffet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Many works online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Jean Dubuffet at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Jardin de Bibi Trompette (Bibi Trompette's Garden), 1955
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Inconsistencies
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Fleshy Face with Chestnut Hair, 1951
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Fleshy Face with Chestnut Hair, 1951
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Nez carotte / Carrot nose
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Corps de Dame-Château d'Étoupe
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Cloudy Weather (Temps Nuageux)
Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French) 
Information about the 2001 exhibition Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985). Exposition du centenaire
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Opéra Bobèche, 1963
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Mi Temps
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Beat the Wing
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jacobs Gallery at Georgetown College, Kentucky
Les Passants, 1982
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Smiling Face
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "D"
Jean Dubuffet in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park at Florida International University, Miami
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French)
Vénus du trottoir
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (mostly in French)
Don Coucoubazar, 1972
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Paysage blond
Musées de Lorraine, France (in French)
Mire G 97, Kowloon
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Le chien jappeur, 1953
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
5 works by Dubuffet
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Cow with a Beautiful Tail, 1954
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Nez Carotte, 1962
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Le burg dévasté, 1952
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Looking Well, 1961
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2005-2006 exhibition
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 66
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jean Dubuffet in the Artchive
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Dubuffet Foundation, France
Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail
Personnage Des Legendes
The Androom Archives
Tour aux figures II
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean Dubuffet 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Artnet Magazine
Clochepoche, 1973
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 64): Jean Dubuffet
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Time Magazine
"Slamming a Door on Tradition", 1985 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"An Outlaw Who Loved Laws", 1993 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Dubuffet: Realism As Absurdity", 1973 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Jean Dubuffet Simulacres
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