Dubuffet

The showcase featured more than 15 works unveiled for the first time, including a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet - marking its first-ever appearance in an Iranian exhibition.

Her work demonstrates how artists absorbed a dizzying array of influences after World War II. For Sadr, this meant the earthy approach of European Informel painters like Alberto Burri and Jean Dubuffet, but also the systemic geometries of Islamic architecture — and even the exaggerated, Pop brushstrokes of Roy Lichtenstein.

Their first large acquisition was a trio of paintings — by Picasso, Dubuffet and Léger — that Mr. Glimcher had shown her, all leaning against a wall in his office.

But after moving to Paris in 1948, and falling in with artists like André Breton and Jean Dubuffet, he became curator of the influential Collection de l’Art Brut.

With sunglasses perched on his forehead, a gold chain around his neck and purple sneakers on his feet, Taylor makes references to Rashid Johnson and Rodin; Dubuffet and Diebenkorn.