Cécile Deroudille
L'Affaire Dubuffet
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Original format 16mm
Year 1997-2004
Language(s) French
Artist(s) Cécile Déroudille
Subtitles English
Running time 26 min
Films
L'AFFAIRE DUBUFFET (1997) 26'
PHILIPPE DEREUX, COLLEUR D'ÉPLUCHURES (2004) 9'
Description
L'Affaire Dubuffet tells the story of an art critic's relentless struggle, René Deroudille, to have the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts purchase a painting by Jean Dubuffet in 1956, at a time when no French museum had yet dared to take this step. The story, full of twists and turns, is told through the fascinating correspondence between René Deroudille, Jean Dubuffet and Philippe Dereux, at that time the intermediary between the art critic and the artist. While Dubuffet's painting, the "Paysage Blond", is at the center of the whole affair, it shares the hero's role with the three other protagonists.
Philippe Dereux, colleur d'épluchures presents itself as a portrait of an artist who, until the end of his life, devoted himself to gouache drawing and the art of collage with vegetable peelings. The text, read by Cécile Déroudille, comes from two books written by Philippe Dereux (1918-2001): "Petit traité des épluchures" and "Une vie - Collages d'épluchures".