In the raw: Dubuffet’s sophisticated drawings

When Jean Dubuffet (1901-85) abandoned his familys wine business to take up art full-time in his 40s, he pledged that he would finally learn to draw. The champion of art brut had studied draughtsmanship years before at the fine arts academy in his native Le Havre, northern France. He sought fresh inspiration in the awkward drawings of children and the everyday, careless marks of a finger on fogged glass or a knifepoint on a lump of butter, as he wrote to his friend and fellow painter Gaston Chai