Fleury Joseph CRÉPIN (1875-1948),
"N°68 Bis"
Oil on canvas signed, dated "3-1940" and titled lower right.
Countersigned, dated and titled on the reverse.
Titled on the upper part of the frame.
H. 34 cm high, 24.3 cm long.
Born in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining basin, Crépin belongs to the unusual category of spiritualist painters, like Augustin Lesage and Victor Simon. Of modest origin and working as a plumber-zipper, one evening in 1938 his hand stopped obeying him and he started to draw shapes. During the Second World War, the voices in his head told him that he had to draw 300 pictures and that at the end of his mission, the war would end. Thus, Fleury Joseph Crépin devoted himself to this purpose and elaborated a characteristic work, of coloured canvases made of points in relief, and could carry out up to 3000 points per hour. Exhibited in the largest collections of art brut including that of the museum in Lausanne, he is one of the major figures of spiritualist art and has been the subject of an exhibition in 2019 at the Musée Maillol.
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