Cows and Groomers

Cows and Groomers is an oil painting on canvas by the French artist Jean Dubuffet, dated from August 1943. It is held in the collection of the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, Alsace (inventory number 2008.8.22).^[2] The painting is one of the more than 120 works of French modern art, among which circa 20 works by Dubuffet, that were bequeathed to the museum by the collector, French journalist Jean-Paul Person (1927–2008), in 2008 (Person had already donated 16 works to the museum in 2004).^[3]

Cows and Groomers
French: Vaches et soigneurs
Artist	Jean Dubuffet
Year	1943
Medium	oil paint on canvas
Subject	Cows with their groomers
Dimensions	49 cm × 64.5 cm (19 in × 25.4 in)[1]
Location	Unterlinden Museum, Colmar
Accession	2008

Painted during the German occupation of Paris Cows and Groomers, with its deliberately "naive" subject and its pointedly "childish" style, is typical for the early period of Dubuffet's anticonformist artistic attitude.^[4]

References

1. Goerig-Hergott, Frédérique (December 2015). La collection d'art moderne – Le Musée Unterlinden de Alechinsky à Zack. Paris: Éditions Artlys. p. 103. ISBN 978-2-85495-627-6.
2. "Vaches et soigneurs". Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Retrieved 19 January 2024. (with illustration)
3. Goerig-Hergott (2015), p. 32.
4. Goerig-Hergott (2015), p. 100.