Grand Jazz Band (New Orleans)

Jean Dubuffet · December 1944

Before you is Grand Jazz Band (New Orleans) — a painting by the French artist Jean Dubuffet, December nineteen forty-four. Dubuffet was part of the outsider art movement. Tempera: pigment bound in egg, which dries within minutes and cannot be blended once down.

Medium Oil and tempera on canvas · Dimensions 45 1/8 x 57 3/4" (114.6 x 146.7 cm) · Credit Gift of Nina and Gordon Bunshaft

Hanging beside it in Gallery 520: African Sculpture, Héritage 2 from the series Masks

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, Untitled from the series Brooklyn Gang, Looking for Langston, Street, Berlin, American People Series #20: Die, Khudi Bari (tiny house)