The French are at their best when honoring their own. The grand centenary retrospective for Dubuffet is definitive, including more than 280 paintings and 100 drawings chosen by Daniel Abadie of the Jeu de Paume and Sophie Duplaix of the Pompidou. Though the earliest piece in the show dates from 1927, the exhibition takes off in coruscating style with his art brut work, only realized once the artist was already in his forties (a wine merchant’s career finally abandoned). All the great series are represented, from the fecund, unglamorous Corps de Dames cycle through the labyrinthine L’Hourloupe paintings to the airy Non-lieux of the year before his death in 1985. As a bonus, we also get to see reconstructed sets from the artist’s infrequently seen stage work Coucou Bazar.

— Richard Shone