Jean Dubuffet

de Roos van der Lint

There are few works in the Dutch national collection that are so embedded in our collective consciousness as 'Jardin d'émail' by Jean Dubuffet. Virtually everyone remembers their first visit to this imposing black and white garden in the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum.0 0'Jean Dubuffet. Jardin d'émail' is the first edition in the series 'Masterpieces' in which the Kröller-Müller Museum highlights works of art that are of great importance within the collection, play a prominent role in art history and are often archetypal for an artist's oeuvre.0 0Roos van der Lint writes about the origins of the work, the position that 'Jardin d'émail' occupies in Dubuffet's oeuvre and how this garden within the sculpture garden of the museum has been regarded and discussed over the years.