Logogriph of Blades belongs to Dubuffet’s cycle of works entitled L’Hourloupe, begun in 1962 and inspired by a doodle he drew while on the telephone. Dubuffet said: “I associate [Hourloupe], by assonance, to ‘hurler’ [to roar], to ‘hululer’ [to hoot], to ‘loup’ [wolf], to Riquet à la Houppe and the title of Maupassant’s book Le Horla inspired by mental instability.” As in a word puzzle (logogriph), the ‘blades’ in this sculpture are scrambled, resembling ever-proliferating cellular entities. Rather than depicting reality, Dubuffet sought to evoke the way things appeared in one’s mind.