For the past few years, its market has been growing strongly with dealers and collectors
€162,280
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), Mire G 71 (Boléro), 1983, acrylic on paper laid on canvas, 67 x 100 cm/26.3 x 39.4 in. Versailles, July 5, 2015. Versailles Enchères auction house
In 2016, the Metropolitan Museum staged an exhibition on William P. Chappel (1801-1878), an amateur folk art painter who depicted early 19th-century New York: true acclaim for an exponent of "outsider art". In 1945, Jean Dubuffet conceptualized its French equivalent, "Art Brut", to describe the "art of the insane" developed in psychiatric hospitals in the 19th century. In the 1970s, it began to cover American folk art, naive art and popular art—which all shared the fact that they were produced by self-taught artists seemingly compelled to create. In recent…
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