Pace Gallery Displays Jean Dubuffet's Monolithic 'Le cirque' Installation

The late French artist Jean Dubuffet is widely-known for pioneering art brut or "raw art." His prolific oeuvre consisted of paintings, sculptures and prints that championed the immediacy and intuitiveness of creative expression with the artist having eschewed the more self-conscious and conventional qualities of academic art. Dubuffet often utilized graphic images and symbols incised into a rough impasto surfaces made of materials such as tar, gravel cinders and ashes bound with varnish and glue...