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20 March 2022 - 14:00 (CET) -
Route de Blois - 41100 Vendôme
This work from Dr. Henri Faure's collection is only the central portion of a huge fresco created by Eugène B., aka "The chronically delusional patient", c. 1927-1933.
Eugène B., aka "The Chronically Delusional Patient" (1872-?), Le Symbole de mon histoire ou Filiation de la locomotive (The Symbol of My History or Relationship with the Locomotive), c. 1927-1933, drawing and collage, with numerous penned inscriptions in old patois, 96.5 x 130 cm/38 x 51.2 in. Estimate: €15,000/20,000
Eugène B., aka "The Chronically Delusional Patient" (1872-?), Le Symbole de mon histoire ou Filiation de la locomotive (The Symbol of My History or Relationship with the Locomotive), c. 1927-1933, drawing and collage, with numerous penned inscriptions in old patois, 96.5 x 130 cm/38 x 51.2 in. Estimate: €15,000/20,000
Although asylum art—"the art of the insane" as André Breton called it—entered French museums in the 1940s, thanks to Jean Dubuffet , who made it one of the foundations of his burgeoning Outsider Art , it had been studied for decades, even centuries, by professors and researchers. At the beginning of the…
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