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JEAN DUBUFFET
TRADUCCIN CARLOS FERNNDEZ MORO IMGENES CORTESA DE!ARCHIVES FONDATION DUBUFFET, PARS
TEXTO !EDITIONS GALLIMARD 1967

Jean Dubuffet en Vence, 1959. Fotografa de John Craven

En 1946, Dubuffet escriba para el catlogo de su exposicin Mirobolus, Macadam

& Cie., Hautes Ptes, que tuvo lugar en la Galera Ren Drouin de Pars, este apasionado
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Jean Dubuffet trabajando en sus Materiologas en su estudio en Vence, en 1960.

Fotografa de Jean Weber