Albert Dubout - Le Fou Dessinant

Albert Dubout - Le Fou Dessinant

33 place du Châtelain Brussels, 1050, Belgium Friday, January 13, 2023–Saturday, February 18, 2023 Opening Reception: Thursday, January 12, 2023, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.


From 13 January to 18 February 2023, the Huberty & Breyne gallery  in Brussels is delighted to be hosting a solo exhibition dedicated to  the work of Albert Dubout (born in Marseille, in 1905; died in  Saint-Aunès, in 1976) – an original collection of plates, Indian inks  and watercolours. 

Over the course of half a century, this talented artist impressed  generation after generation of viewers with his cartoons and  illustrations. 

Dubout is the only illustrator in the world to have mastered the  entire spectrum of the graphic arts. As a newspaper cartoonist, he  worked for over 250 French and foreign journals, reaching 5 billion  readers (half his drawings appeared as cover illustrations). He  illustrated 67 great classics including works by François Villon,  Molière, Voltaire, Honoré de Balzac, Edmond Rostand and Marcel Pagnol.  He published more than 130 albums worldwide, some of them selling more  than a million copies. He worked as a painter, exhibiting 77 oil  paintings in France (Centre Pompidou, BnF François Mitterrand) and  abroad (Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Canada), and designed 86 posters, a  great many of them for the films of Marcel Pagnol. In addition, Dubout  created 3 animations, 2 films for cinema, material for major publicity  campaigns, theatre sets and window displays for Galeries Lafayette. 

Dubout worked in Indian ink, using a special steel-tip pen made in  England and a large magnifying glass to produce drawings of exceptional  delicacy. His plates involving several hundred figures appeared on the  covers of newspapers and journals across the globe, eliciting universal  admiration. These crowd scenes are carefully structured and highly  detailed, involving multiple areas of interest: no one else has produced  anything quite like them in the entire history of drawing. 

Dubout was awarded the Legion of Honour by President Vincent Auriol  and entered the Larousse dictionary the same year as Pablo Picasso. He was a quiet and retiring artist who shunned interviews and public  honours, but Dubout is considered by many contemporary artists,  illustrators and intellectuals (Cabu, Wolinski, Plantu, Cavanna) as the  greatest French illustrator of the 20th century. 


Opening on Thursday January 12, 2023, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., in the presence of Didier Dubout, his grandson 

Conference "Dubout, his life, his work, his commitments" Conference by Didier Dubout on Saturday January 14, 2023 at 3:30 p.m.