Table avec montre et flacon d'encre

Jean Dubuffet was a significant force in postwar art, and perhaps one of the most “anti-artistic” in his disregard for conventional media and imagery, especially the human form. Crucial to his creative output was the separation of man and nature, and an opposition to classic, humanist culture, with many of his reference points overlapping with the goals of Abstract Expressionist painters. One of those was Jackson Pollock, who he met the year this work was made, on his first visit to the United States. The title of this painting translates as “Table with Watch and Ink Bottle.”