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The Cow with the Subtile Nose
Painting by Jean Dubuffet
The Cow with a Subtile Nose is an oil and enamel painting on canvas by French painter Jean Dubuffet, created in 1954.
Jean dubuffet paintings cow on canvas
It is held in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[1]
History
Starting in July 1954 Dubuffet often went to Durtol, a small village near Clermont-Ferrand, where his wife lived for health reasons.
He set up a workshop there and worked on rural scenes, as he had in 1943–1944. He said: "I took great pleasure in looking at the cows for a long time as I had done in the past and then drawing them from memory, or sometimes even, but much more exceptionally, from life."[2]
During this period he created a series of paintings of cows, including The Cow with a Subtile Nose.
Also from July 1954, Dubuffet experimented with a new painting technique: lacquered paint. This very fluid, quick-drying industrial paint, called "four-hour enamel", when drying gives a network of cracks when us