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        "accession_number": "1977.51",
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        "tombstone": "Figure from the \"Legends\" Series, 1962. Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901\u20131985). Brush and black ink, watercolor, and gouache; sheet: 50 x 33.3 cm (19 11/16 x 13 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry Blazy, 1977.51. \u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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        "title": "Figure from the \"Legends\" Series",
        "creation_date": "1962",
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        "culture": [
            "France, 20th century"
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        "technique": "brush and black ink, watercolor, and gouache",
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                "description": "white wove paper",
                "watermarks": []
            }
        ],
        "department": "Drawings",
        "collection": "DR - French",
        "type": "Drawing",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 50 x 33.3 cm (19 11/16 x 13 1/8 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "sheet": {
                "height": 0.5,
                "height_inch": 19,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.6875,
                "width": 0.333,
                "width_inch": 13,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.125
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        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "signed, lower right, in orange gouache: j. D. 62 ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: JEAN DUBUFFET / 50 x 30 / # 175000/0183 ; center in graphite: DG 101 ; center, in black ink: DG 101 ; center in graphite: DBC / 02/025/D1 / 50 x 33.5 ; lower left, in blue ball point pen: 3542 A",
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        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 302666,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1977",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1977</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).",
                    "opening_date": "1977-12-28T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 311635,
                    "title": "French Drawings from the Collection",
                    "description": "<i>French Drawings from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).",
                    "opening_date": "1994-12-13T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA, French Drawings from the Collection (Dec. 13, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995).",
                    "opening_date": "1994-12-13T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA, The Year in Review for 1977 (Dec. 28, 1977-Jan. 22, 1978), cma Bulletin 65 (1978), p. 41 no. 101.",
                    "opening_date": "1977-12-28T00:00:00"
                }
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Mrs. Henry Blazy, New York, NY",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "February 22, 1973",
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        "description": "The obsessive repetition of forms and phantasmagoric polychrome apparitions in his Legends series in 1961\u201362 prefigured Dubuffet\u2019s Hourloupe cycle that began in 1962 and occupied\r\nthe artist for the next 12 years. While doodling at the telephone, Dubuffet created the cool, anonymous idiom he identified as the Hourloupe, in which the compositions consist of pockets of intense colors framed by firm black lines. The effect is of a jigsaw puzzle-like mosaic of tightly interlocking cellular forms. Dubuffet\u2019s concern was not to show objects as they might appear in the world but completely flat expressions of the irrational or pre-logical mind. With his Hourloupes, Dubuffet effectively created his own distinct language: a world of fantasy and grotesque figures and shapes that belong only to him.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Henry Blazy",
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                "description": "Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901\u20131985)",
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                "birth_year": "1901",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1977-05-10T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1962,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1962",
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        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "Untitled"
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:56.805000"
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