Art Monte-Carlo 2026 · Booth E3
April 29 - May 1st, 2026 · Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Opening on April 28, 2026 (by invitation only)
A.C.M.
Aloïse
Hervé Bohnert
Morgane Salmon
Flore Sigrist
Louis Soutter
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
Vanessa Garner
Adolf Wölfli
Anna Zemánková
Carlo Zinelli
A.C.M.
1951-2023 (Hargicourt, France)
Untitled
A.C.M. (Alfred Corinne Marié)
Assembly of electrical components and mirrors
circa 2020 · 87 x 58 x 5 cm (34.25 x 22.83 x 1.97 in)
Created around 2020, this work takes the form of a relief painting that lies somewhere between an abstract circuit, an architectural facade, and a mental map.
The painted wooden panel within the work is entirely covered with sections of electrical cables and small mechanical parts, arranged in tight geometric patterns: concentric circles, triangles, diagonals, and networks of points that echo across the entire surface. This methodical repetition creates a hypnotic grid, evoking a diagram of interconnected elements.
At regular intervals, fragments of mirror are inserted into the composition like openings or screens. These reflective surfaces capture and fragment the light, integrating the audience and the space into the work, while introducing an unstable depth that breaks the frontal nature of the painting.
The contrast between the light background and the dark, compact material of the sawed cables gives the whole a strong graphic presence, straddling the line between drawing and sculpture. The rigor of the composition is, however, punctuated by slight irregularities, which disrupt its reading and maintain a constant visual tension.
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Untitled
A.C.M. (Alfred Corinne Marié)
Assembly of electrical components and mirrors
circa 2020 · 102,5 x 82,5 x 4 cm (40.35 x 32.48 x 1.57 in)
This work, created around 2020, takes the form of a large-scale relief painting, composed entirely of sections of electrical cable and fragments of mirror. These materials form a dense, layered surface where organic and industrial elements intertwine.
Large white forms, evoking leaves or vines, spread across the entire surface in a continuous tangle, comparable to a superimposed network of vegetation. The mirror fragments reveal a fragmented background, composed of colored reflections and fragments of the surrounding space, recomposed as the audience moves.
The surface thus acts as an unstable plane, integrating light, ambient colors, and the presence of the audience into the very heart of the composition.
The contrast between the opaque density of the white forms and the reflective depth of the mirrors generates a constant visual vibration. The work oscillates between opacity and transparency, between drawing and light, as if abstract vegetation were gradually covering a glass surface. The methodical repetition of cable sections evokes a patient process transforming an industrial material into a lace-like structure.
Building on her research into electrical materials and mirrors, the artist creates here an inverted landscape, where organic forms present themselves as a field of floating perceptions.
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A.C.M. is the pseudonym of Francis Alfred Marié, born on February 23, 1951, in Hargicourt (Aisne) and who died in 2023. The acronym combines his own initials with those of his partner Corinne, whose support was central to his creative process. After a brief stint at the Beaux-Arts in Tourcoing, which he left by destroying his work, he moved into the former family weaving mill in the mid-1970s. There, he assembled natural and recycled materials—stones, bark, wire, typewriters—to produce sculptures with complex and dense architecture, straddling the line between art brut and singular art.
Works included in the collections of:
Centre Pompidou, Paris — LaM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art of Lille Métropole — Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Antoine de Galbert and Bruno Decharme Collection — Museum of Everything, London — New Museum, New York
Hervé Bohnert
b. 1967 (France)
Untitled
Hervé Bohnert
Fabric skull with embroidery
2026 · approx. 14 x 14 x 18 cm (approx. 5.51 x 5.51 x 7.09 in)
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Hervé Bohnert
Fabric skull with embroidery
2026 · approx. 14 x 14 x 18 cm (approx. 5.51 x 5.51 x 7.09 in)
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Born in 1967, Hervé Bohnert lives and works in Strasbourg.
A self-taught artist, he explores memory, disappearance, and representations of death, drawing closely on his Alsatian heritage. His practice combines sculpture, painting, interventions on old photographs, and textile work. He transforms objects steeped in history into vehicles for reflection. His work draws inspiration from dances of death and funeral narratives, reinterpreted through a tension between gravity and irony. His works, shaped by the fragility of the materials themselves, create a dialogue between personal memory and collective memory.
Works held in the collections of:
Antoine de Galbert Collection - Volot Collection - Fondation Francès - Museum of Everything, London - Musée de la Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris - Private collections in the U.S. and Paris
Aloïse (Aloïse CORBAZ, aka)
1886 (Lausanne, Switzerland) - 1964 (Gimel, Switzerland)
Gloire à Dieu Rosière
Aloïse Corbaz
Craie grasse sur papier
5ème période 1960-1963 · 70 x 100 cm
No. 497 in the catalogue raisonné
Lower right: “Glory to God Rosière”
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La Muerte Lucrèce Borgia (recto)
Rivoli (back)
Aloïse Corbaz
Colored pencils and graphite on paper, both sides
between 1924 and 1941 (2nd period) · 29 x 21 cm (11.42 x 8.27 in)
Nos. 26.01 and 26.02 of the catalogue raisonné
Inscription (front): “La Muerte Lucrezia Borgia Rivoli”
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Aloïse Corbaz was born on June 28, 1886, in Lausanne. Working as a governess in Germany before World War I, she developed a fascination with Emperor Wilhelm II and harbored a secret dream of becoming an opera singer. In 1918, she was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland, where she would spend more than 40 years.
There, she secretly produced over 2,000 drawings depicting voluptuous female figures and embracing couples, created using flower petals, herbs, or cherry juice. Jean Dubuffet deeply admired her, and she was one of the central figures who inspired his theorization of Art Brut after World War II.
Works included in the collections of:
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne — Centre Pompidou, Paris — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq — American Folk Art Museum, New York — Kunstmuseum Solothurn — Museum of Art and History at Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris — La Fabuloserie, Dicy
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
1875 (Hénin-Beaumont, France) -1948 (Montigny-en-Gohelle, France)
Untitled
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
Oil on canvas
12.1939 · 45 x 30 cm (17.72 x 11.81 in)
Signed lower right: “Crepin Fy – JH; JH Crepin – F. 12-1939 No. 50”
On the back: “JH Crepin F. 12-1939 No. 50”
Foyer de l’Art Brut
Former André Breton Collection
Publications (selection)
- André Breton, la beauté compulsive, exhibition catalog, 1991
- Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Rétrospective, exhibition catalog, 2000
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion
- Collections Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert, Hommage à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, Ed. Lienart, 2015
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024
- Art Brut, collection abcd, Ed. Ville d’Angers
Expositions (selection)
- André Breton, la beauté compulsive, Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), 1991
- Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Rétrospective, Musée d’Art Moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve-d’Ascq (FR), 2000
- abcd, a collection of art brut. American Folk Art Museum, New York (USA), January 20 – June 30, 2001
- abcd, a collection of art brut. John Michael Kohler Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA), November 1st, 2001 – February 10, 2002
- abcd, a collection of art brut. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), April 27 – August 3, 2002
- abcd, une collection d’art brut. Foire de Cologne (Kunstmesse Köln), Cologne (DE), April 4 – 9, 2003
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), April 26 – June 29, 2003
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (ITE), Kaustinen (FI), June 27 – September 21, 2003
- A corps perdu. abcd, une collection d’art brut. Pavillon des arts, Paris (FR), April 29 – September 26, 2004
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Passion and Action. House of Shiseido, Tokyo (JP), September 27 - November 27, 2005
- Art Brut, abcd collection. GHMP, Prague (CZ), June 14 - September 17, 2006
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Museum of Modern Art Shiga (JP), October 25 - November 30, 2008
- World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider). Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort (DE), September 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011
- Art Brut. Collection abcd. La maison rouge, Paris (FR), October 18, 2014 - January 18, 2015
- Elevations. Collections Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert. Hommage à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval. Hauterives (FR), Le Palais idéal du facteur Cheval, April 30 – August 30, 2015
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, Musée Würth, Erstein (FR), October 9, 2022 - May 21, 2023
- Epopées célestes. Villa Médicis, Rome (IT), March 1st – May 19, 2024
Reproductions (selection)
- André Breton, la beauté compulsive, exhibition catalog, 1991 : reproduced on pp. 437, 484
- Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Rétrospective, exhibition catalog, 2000 : reproduced on p.116, n°26
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014 : reproduced on p. 184
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion : reproduced on p.326
- Collections Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert, Hommage à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, Ed. Lienart, 2015 : reproduced on p.96
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022 : reproduced on p.56
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024, reproduced on p.57
- Art Brut, collection abcd, Ed. Ville d’Angers, reproduced on p.23
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Fleury Joseph Crépin was born on February 8, 1875, in Hénin-Liétard, in the Pas-de-Calais department, and died on November 10, 1948, in Montigny-en-Gohelle. A plumber, tinsmith, hardware dealer, musician, and dowser, nothing seemed to predestine him for a career in painting. In 1930, he befriended the medium and clairvoyant Victor Simon, who introduced him to spiritualism, before becoming a healer himself. It was at the age of 63, in 1938, that he began to draw and then paint, convinced that his hands were guided by angelic entities.
In 1939, a voice commanded him to paint 300 paintings to end the war. He completed his 300th work on May 7, 1945, the very day of the Nazi surrender—a coincidence that would earn him a lasting mystical aura. His compositions are characterized by rigorous symmetry, multicolored temples and palaces of meticulous precision, reminiscent of mandalas, created in a trance-like state. He produced a total of 345 oil-on-canvas works and 43 “wonderful paintings.” As early as 1945, André Breton acquired two of his works at the inaugural exhibition of the Foyer de l’Art Brut, and Jean Dubuffet made him one of the leading artists of his first major exhibition of art brut in 1949.
Works included in the collections of:
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Centre Pompidou / Musée national d'art moderne, Paris — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq (acquisition lors de la vente de la collection André Breton, 2003) — Collection Antoine de Galbert.
Vanessa Garner
b. 1993 (France)
Totem
Vanessa Garner
Wooden spindles, sprigs of lavender, Thai fabrics, wool, and beads on a base
2025 · 200 cm (78.74 in)
Jeune artiste d’origine franco-thaïlandaise, Vanessa Garner développe une œuvre ancrée dans l’exploration du métissage, de la mémoire et de l’identité. Elle utilise des matériaux naturels — bois, tissus batik, laine, lavandin — qu’elle assemble en installations, objets totémiques et sculptures textiles.
Conçu pour être touché et manipulé, son travail interroge la distance entre l’art et le public et ouvre la voie à des expériences immersives et participatives.La verticalité, la forme du bâton et l’usage de matières naturelles confèrent à son œuvre une dimension universelle, associée aux notions de guidance, de lien entre ciel et terre et de purification. Les tissus thaïlandais, le batik indonésien et la lavande provençale deviennent ainsi les vecteurs d’une narration à la fois intime et collective, établissant un pont entre les cultures et les générations.
Le travail de Vanessa Garner a été présenté lors de nombreuses expositions individuelles et collectives à Strasbourg, Paris, Lille, Zurich et Lausanne. Elle est lauréate de la Fondation Laurent-Vuibert.
Son travail sera présenté à Venise pendant l’édition 2026 de la Biennale dans le cadre de l’exposition Personal Structures au Palazzo Mora.
Œuvres conservées dans les collections de :
Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg — Collections privées, Paris, Lille, Zurich et Lausanne — Résidences : Château de Lourmarin, Fondation Laurent-Vuibert
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Jeune artiste d’origine franco-thaïlandaise, Vanessa Garner développe une œuvre ancrée dans l’exploration du métissage, de la mémoire et de l’identité. Elle utilise des matériaux naturels — bois, tissus batik, laine, lavandin — qu’elle assemble en installations, objets totémiques et sculptures textiles.
Conçu pour être touché et manipulé, son travail interroge la distance entre l’art et le public et ouvre la voie à des expériences immersives et participatives.La verticalité, la forme du bâton et l’usage de matières naturelles confèrent à son œuvre une dimension universelle, associée aux notions de guidance, de lien entre ciel et terre et de purification. Les tissus thaïlandais, le batik indonésien et la lavande provençale deviennent ainsi les vecteurs d’une narration à la fois intime et collective, établissant un pont entre les cultures et les générations.
Le travail de Vanessa Garner a été présenté lors de nombreuses expositions individuelles et collectives à Strasbourg, Paris, Lille, Zurich et Lausanne. Elle est lauréate de la Fondation Laurent-Vuibert.
Son travail sera présenté à Venise pendant l’édition 2026 de la Biennale dans le cadre de l’exposition Personal Structures au Palazzo Mora.
Works included in the collections of:
Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg — Private collections, Paris, Lille, Zurich, and Lausanne — Artist residencies: Château de Lourmarin, Laurent-Vuibert Foundation
Morgane Salmon
b. 1987 (France)
Grand vase aux élégantes fleurs rouges
Morgane Salmon
Glazed ceramic
2024 · 36 x 30 x 30 cm (14.17 x 11.81 x 11.81 in)
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Grand vase aux fleurs élégantes jaunes
Morgane Salmon
Glazed ceramic
2025 · 35 x 30 x 30 cm (13.78 x 11.81 x 11.81 in)
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Cache-pot aux fleurs carnivores rouge orangé et 3 serpents
Morgane Salmon
Glazed ceramic
2024 · 23 x 38 cm (9.06 x 14.96 in)
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Morgane Salmon is a ceramist from Strasbourg born in 1987, who has been working with ceramics since the age of eight.
She established her studio in Strasbourg in 2012 under the name Heurgothique and has been creating a rich variety of works—vases, hybrid sculptures—covered in brightly colored floral and organic motifs, blurring the line between art and craft. She has been exhibiting at the Galerie Ritsch-Fisch in Strasbourg since 2024.
Works included in the collections of:
Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris — Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg — Ceramics Biennial, Guebwiller and Chantemerle-lès-Grignan
Flore SIGRIST
b. 1985 (France)
Le Jardin des délices de Flore
Flore Sigrist
Acrylic on canvas
2024 · 200 x 300 cm (78.74 x 118.11 in)
Signed and numbered (back) : “20243000820”
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Flore Sigrist is a painter and visual artist born in 1985 in Strasbourg. A self-taught prodigy, she has developed a lyrical abstract expressionist style characterized by spontaneous brushstrokes, intense colors, and a tension between order and chaos.
In 1995, at just ten years old, she exhibited 40 works at the Sporting d'Hiver in Monaco during a charity auction organized under the auspices of the Principality, to benefit the Mission Enfance association, in the presence of Prince Rainier III and Prince Albert. It was on this occasion that Alain Renner, then vice president of Sotheby’s France, discovered the young prodigy and took her under his wing—a decisive turning point that launched her international recognition.
In 2011 and 2012, she was ranked among the 30 most sought-after artists under 30 in the international art market, and in 2015, Forbes named her the only French woman on its list of the most influential emerging artists.
Works included in the collections of:
MMM Museum – Sea, Marine, World, Bordeaux (10 monumental works in the permanent collection since June 2019) — National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP), France — Private collections in Monaco and Switzerland
Louis Soutter
1871 (Morges, Switzerland) - 1942 (Ballaigues, Switzerland)
Les Pa/ssions enfermées
Louis Soutter
Indian ink on paper
“Mannerist Period”: 1930–1937 · 34 x 25.5 cm (13.39 x 10.04 in)
No. 2088 in the catalogue raisonné
On the back: “After the emotional / spiritual experience of June 13 / Signed / Louis Soutter”
Au dos : "Après l'émotion / spirituelle du 13 juin / Je signe / Louis Soutter"
Publications
Louis Soutter, Crayon, plume & encre de Chine, Michel Thévoz et Anne-Marie Simond, Ed. Héron, 2002
Reproductions
Louis Soutter, Crayon, plume & encre de Chine, Michel Thévoz et Anne-Marie Simond, Ed. Héron, 2002 : full-page reproduction on p.115
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Louis Soutter was born on June 4, 1871, in Morges, Switzerland. A gifted individual, he excelled in his studies in architecture and engineering, played the violin, and painted; in 1897, he was appointed director of the Department of Art and Design at Colorado College in the United States.
Upon returning to Europe, he gradually sank into poverty and marginalization, eventually ending up in a Swiss hospice. After 1936, with arthritis preventing him from holding a pencil, he painted entirely with his fingers using ink and gouache. His cousin Le Corbusier encouraged him; Jean Dubuffet discovered him in 1945 and included him in his collection of art brut.
Works included in the collections of:
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (MCBA), Lausanne (over 630 works) — MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York — Kunstmuseum Basel — Kunsthaus Zürich — Kunstmuseum Winterthur — Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris
Adolf Wölfli
1864 (Bowil, Switzerland) - 1930 (Bern, Switzerland)
Untitled
Adolf Wölfli
Graphite and colored pencil on paper, both sides
1926 · 59 x 51 cm (23.23 x 20.08 in)
Double-sided work: handwritten notes on the reverse side
Publications (selection)
- Folies de la beauté. abcd, une collection d’art brut, exhibition catalog, Paris, abcd et Actes Sud, 2000
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024
Expositions
- Galerie Messine, Paris (FR), November 7, 1996 – January 31, 1997
- Folies de la beauté. Hôtel de Campredon, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (FR), July 7 – October 15, 2000
- abcd, a collection of art brut. American Folk Art Museum, New York (USA), January 20 – June 30 juin 2001
- abcd, a collection of art brut. John Michael Kohler Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA), November 1st, 2001 – February 10, 2002
- abcd, a collection of art brut. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), 27 avril – 3 août 2002
- abcd, une collection d’art brut. Foire de Cologne (Kunstmesse Köln), Cologne (DE), 4 avril – 9 avril 2003
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), 26 avril – June 29, 2003
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (ITE), Kaustinen (FI), June 27 – 21 septembre 2003
- A corps perdu. abcd, une collection d’art brut. Pavillon des arts, Paris (FR), 29 avril – 26 septembre 2004
- Art Brut, abcd collection. GHMP, Prague (CZ), June 14 - 17 septembre 2006
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Museum of Modern Art Shiga (JP), October 25 - 30 novembre
- World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider). Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort (DE), 24 septembre 2010 - January 9, 2011
- Art Brut. Collection abcd. La maison rouge, Paris (FR), October 18, 2014 - January 18 janvier 2015
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, Musée Würth, Erstein (FR), October 9, 2022 - 21 mai 2023
- Epopées célestes. Villa Médicis, Rome (IT), 1er mars – 19 mai 2024
Reproductions
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014 : reproduced on p. 173
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion : reproduced on p.309
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022 : reproduced on p.136
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024, reproduit en couleurs sur la couverture et p.29
Détails du verso
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Untitled
Adolf Wölfli
Graphite and colored pencil on paper, both sides
circa 1920 · 32 x 20 cm (12.60 x 7.87 in)
Double-sided work: handwritten notes on the reverse side
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Adolf Wölfli was born on February 29, 1864, in Bowil, near Bern. An orphan who suffered abuse and poverty from childhood, he was admitted in 1895 to the Waldau psychiatric asylum, where he would spend the rest of his life.
Beginning in 1899, he produced a monumental body of work: more than 1,500 drawings and a fantastical 25,000-page autobiography, blending imaginary realms, musical scores, and geometric symbols. André Breton cited it as “one of the three or four major works of the 20th century.” He was one of the first extraordinary artists to be studied by a psychiatrist, Walter Morgenthaler, as early as 1921.
Works included in the collections of:
Museum of Fine Arts, Bern / Adolf Wölfli Foundation — Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Centre Pompidou / National Museum of Modern Art, Paris — Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Anna Zemánková
1908 (Olomuc, Czech Rep.) - 1988 (Prague, Czech Rep.)
Untitled
Anna Zemánková
Ink, colored pencil, cut-out paper, embroidery, and thread on paper
between 1965 and 1973 · 62 x 45 cm
Signed lower right: “Zemánková”
Publications
- Folies de la beauté. abcd, une collection d’art brut, exhibition catalog, Paris, abcd et Actes Sud, 2000
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion
Expositions
- Galerie Messine, Paris (FR), November 7, 1996 – January 31, 1997
- Folies de la beauté. Hôtel de Campredon, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (FR), July 7 – October 15, 2000
- abcd, a collection of art brut. American Folk Art Museum, New York (USA), January 20 – June 30 juin 2001
- abcd, a collection of art brut. John Michael Kohler Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA), November 1st, 2001 – February 10, 2002
- abcd, a collection of art brut. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), April 27 – August 3, 2002
- abcd, une collection d’art brut. Foire de Cologne (Kunstmesse Köln), Cologne (DE), April 4 – 9 2003
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), April 26 – June 29, 2003
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (ITE), Kaustinen (FI), June 27 – September 21, 2003
- A corps perdu. abcd, une collection d’art brut. Pavillon des arts, Paris (FR), April 29 – September 26, 2004
- Art Brut, abcd collection. GHMP, Prague (CZ), June 14 - September 17, 2006
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Museum of Modern Art Shiga (JP), October 25 - November 30, 2008
- World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider). Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort (DE), September 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011
- Art Brut. Collection abcd. La maison rouge, Paris (FR), October 18, 2014 - January 18, 2015
Reproductions
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion : reproduced on p.240
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Anna Zemánková was born in 1908 in Olomouc, Moravia (now the Czech Republic). A trained dental technician, she began painting at the age of 52 as a way to cope with depression, working early in the morning before her family woke up, in a trance-like state.
She created large floral and organic compositions in ink, pastel, and watercolor, depicting hybrid forms that blended the botanical and the imaginary, imbued with forces she described as magnetic. Honored at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and again in 2024, she is now recognized as one of the leading female figures in Art Brut.
Works included in the collections of:
Centre Pompidou, Paris — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — Art Brut Collection, Lausanne
Carlo Zinelli
1916 (San Giovanni Lupatoto, Italy) - 1974 (Vérone, Italy)
Tavoli Verdi e figura piegata blu stellata · 468 A
Cavallo su cerchi con figura barbuta tra le zampe · 468 B
Carlo Zinelli
Gouache on paper, double-sided work
January 14, 1967 · 70 x 50 cm (27.56 x 19.69 in)
No. 468 A and 468 B in the general catalog
Publications
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique., catalogue d’exposition, 2024
Expositions
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg (FR), January 19 - February 24, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Metropolitan Pavilion, New-York (USA), February 29 - March 3, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. L’Appart Renoma, Paris (FR), April 3 - May 17, 2024
- A Summer in the mountains, Galerie Ritsch-Fisch x Norki, Gstaad (CH), August 9 - September 15, 2025
Reproductions
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002 : reproduced on p.315
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Grande uomo con fez e figure neri · 715 A
Grande uomo con fez e donna neri · 715 B
Carlo Zinelli
Gouache on paper, double-sided work
March 25, 1968 · 70 x 50 cm (27.56 x 19.69 in)
N°715 A et 715 B du catalogue général
Publications
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique., catalogue d’exposition, 2024
Expositions
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg (FR), January 19 - February 24, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Metropolitan Pavilion, New-York (USA), February 29 - March 3, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. L’Appart Renoma, Paris (FR), April 3 - May 17, 2024
- A Summer in the mountains, Galerie Ritsch-Fisch x Norki, Gstaad (CH), August 9 - September 15, 2025
Reproductions
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002 : reproduced on p.510
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Pesce stellato blu, alpino con penna e case · 729 A
Due grandi alpine dai nasi a spirale e penna blu · 729 B
Carlo Zinelli
Gouache and graphite on paper (729 A); gouache on paper (729 B); double-sided work
April 29, 1968 · 70 x 50 cm (27.56 x 19.69 in)
No. 729 A and 729 B in the general catalog
This double-sided work by Carlo Zinelli unfolds a world of great intensity, true to the artist’s spirit. On each side, two large stylized silhouettes—one blue, the other red—face each other or respond to one another, crisscrossed by circular patterns and openings, like human archetypes or totemic figures. Surrounding them, a constellation of objects, animals, houses, and symbols is arranged in a space without perspective, where the narrative is constructed through repetition and variations in scale. The composition is punctuated by handwritten text that dominates the surface, blending words, fragments of sentences, and onomatopoeia.
Far from being purely informative, this writing becomes a visual element in its own right, reinforcing the work’s sonic and interior dimension. The palette, dominated by deep blue, carmine red, and a few touches of yellow, structures a whole in which we find echoes of Zinelli’s rural memory—his memories of the countryside—but also traces of his experience of war and psychiatric asylum: animals and enigmatic forms, houses, objects.
A singular detail catches the eye: inside a circle, a cigarette burn, made by the artist himself, pierces the surface. This gesture, both spontaneous and laden with meaning, introduces a tactile and almost ritualistic dimension to the work, like a signature or a mark of time that runs through the narrative.
Publications
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique., catalogue d’exposition, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002, reproduit p.519
Expositions
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg (FR), January 19 - February 24, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Metropolitan Pavilion, New-York (USA), February 29 - March 3, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. L’Appart Renoma, Paris (FR), April 3 - May 17, 2024
- A Summer in the mountains, Galerie Ritsch-Fisch x Norki, Gstaad (CH), August 9 - 15 septembre 2025
Reproductions
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002 : reproduced on p.519
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Carlo Zinelli was born in 1916 in San Giovanni Lupatoto, near Verona. After fighting in the Spanish Civil War, he went through a period of profound mental instability that led to his permanent admission in 1947 to the San Giacomo Psychiatric Hospital in Verona, where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Referred to the hospital’s art studio in 1957, he produced nearly 3,000 works over fifteen years: compositions of repetitive silhouettes in red and blue on a white background, executed with an obsessive and fascinating visual logic. Exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2013, he is now recognized as a leading figure in the global art brut movement.
Works included in the collections of:
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York — Centre Pompidou, Paris — Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq — American Folk Art Museum, New York
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Art Monte-Carlo 2026 · Booth E3
April 29 - May 1st, 2026 · Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Opening on April 28, 2026 (by invitation only)
A.C.M.
Carlo Zinelli
Morgane Salmon
Flore Sigrist
Louis Soutter
Anna Zemánková
Adolf Wölfli
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
Vanessa Garner
Aloïse
Hervé Bohnert
A.C.M.
1951-2023 (Hargicourt, France)
Untitled
A.C.M. (Alfred Corinne Marié)
Assembly of electrical components and mirrors
circa 2020 · 87 x 58 x 5 cm (34.25 x 22.83 x 1.97 in)
Created around 2020, this work takes the form of a relief painting that lies somewhere between an abstract circuit, an architectural facade, and a mental map.
The painted wooden panel within the work is entirely covered with sections of electrical cables and small mechanical parts, arranged in tight geometric patterns: concentric circles, triangles, diagonals, and networks of points that echo across the entire surface. This methodical repetition creates a hypnotic grid, evoking a diagram of interconnected elements.
At regular intervals, fragments of mirror are inserted into the composition like openings or screens. These reflective surfaces capture and fragment the light, integrating the audience and the space into the work, while introducing an unstable depth that breaks the frontal nature of the painting.
The contrast between the light background and the dark, compact material of the sawed cables gives the whole a strong graphic presence, straddling the line between drawing and sculpture. The rigor of the composition is, however, punctuated by slight irregularities, which disrupt its reading and maintain a constant visual tension.
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Untitled
A.C.M. (Alfred Corinne Marié)
Assembly of electrical components and mirrors
circa 2020 · 102,5 x 82,5 x 4 cm (40.35 x 32.48 x 1.57 in)
This work, created around 2020, takes the form of a large-scale relief painting, composed entirely of sections of electrical cable and fragments of mirror. These materials form a dense, layered surface where organic and industrial elements intertwine.
Large white forms, evoking leaves or vines, spread across the entire surface in a continuous tangle, comparable to a superimposed network of vegetation. The mirror fragments reveal a fragmented background, composed of colored reflections and fragments of the surrounding space, recomposed as the audience moves.
The surface thus acts as an unstable plane, integrating light, ambient colors, and the presence of the audience into the very heart of the composition.
The contrast between the opaque density of the white forms and the reflective depth of the mirrors generates a constant visual vibration. The work oscillates between opacity and transparency, between drawing and light, as if abstract vegetation were gradually covering a glass surface. The methodical repetition of cable sections evokes a patient process transforming an industrial material into a lace-like structure.
Building on her research into electrical materials and mirrors, the artist creates here an inverted landscape, where organic forms present themselves as a field of floating perceptions.
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A.C.M. is the pseudonym of Francis Alfred Marié, born on February 23, 1951, in Hargicourt (Aisne) and who died in 2023. The acronym combines his own initials with those of his partner Corinne, whose support was central to his creative process. After a brief stint at the Beaux-Arts in Tourcoing, which he left by destroying his work, he moved into the former family weaving mill in the mid-1970s. There, he assembled natural and recycled materials—stones, bark, wire, typewriters—to produce sculptures with complex and dense architecture, straddling the line between art brut and singular art.
Works included in the collections of:
Centre Pompidou, Paris — LaM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art of Lille Métropole — Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Antoine de Galbert and Bruno Decharme Collection — Museum of Everything, London — New Museum, New York
Hervé Bohnert
b. 1967 (France)
Untitled
Hervé Bohnert
Fabric skull with embroidery
2026 · approx. 14 x 14 x 18 cm (approx. 5.51 x 5.51 x 7.09 in)
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Hervé Bohnert
Fabric skull with embroidery
2026 · approx. 14 x 14 x 18 cm (approx. 5.51 x 5.51 x 7.09 in)
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Born in 1967, Hervé Bohnert lives and works in Strasbourg.
A self-taught artist, he explores memory, disappearance, and representations of death, drawing closely on his Alsatian heritage. His practice combines sculpture, painting, interventions on old photographs, and textile work. He transforms objects steeped in history into vehicles for reflection. His work draws inspiration from dances of death and funeral narratives, reinterpreted through a tension between gravity and irony. His works, shaped by the fragility of the materials themselves, create a dialogue between personal memory and collective memory.
Works held in the collections of:
Antoine de Galbert Collection - Volot Collection - Fondation Francès - Museum of Everything, London - Musée de la Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris - Private collections in the U.S. and Paris
Aloïse (Aloïse CORBAZ, aka)
1886 (Lausanne, Switzerland) - 1964 (Gimel, Switzerland)
Gloire à Dieu Rosière
Aloïse Corbaz
Craie grasse sur papier
5ème période 1960-1963 · 70 x 100 cm
No. 497 in the catalogue raisonné
Lower right: “Glory to God Rosière”
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La Muerte Lucrèce Borgia (recto)
Rivoli (back)
Aloïse Corbaz
Colored pencils and graphite on paper, both sides
between 1924 and 1941 (2nd period) · 29 x 21 cm (11.42 x 8.27 in)
Nos. 26.01 and 26.02 of the catalogue raisonné
Inscription (front): “La Muerte Lucrezia Borgia Rivoli”
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Aloïse Corbaz was born on June 28, 1886, in Lausanne. Working as a governess in Germany before World War I, she developed a fascination with Emperor Wilhelm II and harbored a secret dream of becoming an opera singer. In 1918, she was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland, where she would spend more than 40 years.
There, she secretly produced over 2,000 drawings depicting voluptuous female figures and embracing couples, created using flower petals, herbs, or cherry juice. Jean Dubuffet deeply admired her, and she was one of the central figures who inspired his theorization of Art Brut after World War II.
Works included in the collections of:
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne — Centre Pompidou, Paris — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq — American Folk Art Museum, New York — Kunstmuseum Solothurn — Museum of Art and History at Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris — La Fabuloserie, Dicy
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
1875 (Hénin-Beaumont, France) -1948 (Montigny-en-Gohelle, France)
Untitled
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
Oil on canvas
12.1939 · 45 x 30 cm (17.72 x 11.81 in)
Signed lower right: “Crepin Fy – JH; JH Crepin – F. 12-1939 No. 50”
On the back: “JH Crepin F. 12-1939 No. 50”
Foyer de l’Art Brut
Former André Breton Collection
Publications (selection)
- André Breton, la beauté compulsive, exhibition catalog, 1991
- Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Rétrospective, exhibition catalog, 2000
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion
- Collections Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert, Hommage à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, Ed. Lienart, 2015
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024
- Art Brut, collection abcd, Ed. Ville d’Angers
Expositions (selection)
- André Breton, la beauté compulsive, Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), 1991
- Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Rétrospective, Musée d’Art Moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve-d’Ascq (FR), 2000
- abcd, a collection of art brut. American Folk Art Museum, New York (USA), January 20 – June 30, 2001
- abcd, a collection of art brut. John Michael Kohler Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA), November 1st, 2001 – February 10, 2002
- abcd, a collection of art brut. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), April 27 – August 3, 2002
- abcd, une collection d’art brut. Foire de Cologne (Kunstmesse Köln), Cologne (DE), April 4 – 9, 2003
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), April 26 – June 29, 2003
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (ITE), Kaustinen (FI), June 27 – September 21, 2003
- A corps perdu. abcd, une collection d’art brut. Pavillon des arts, Paris (FR), April 29 – September 26, 2004
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Passion and Action. House of Shiseido, Tokyo (JP), September 27 - November 27, 2005
- Art Brut, abcd collection. GHMP, Prague (CZ), June 14 - September 17, 2006
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Museum of Modern Art Shiga (JP), October 25 - November 30, 2008
- World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider). Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort (DE), September 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011
- Art Brut. Collection abcd. La maison rouge, Paris (FR), October 18, 2014 - January 18, 2015
- Elevations. Collections Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert. Hommage à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval. Hauterives (FR), Le Palais idéal du facteur Cheval, April 30 – August 30, 2015
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, Musée Würth, Erstein (FR), October 9, 2022 - May 21, 2023
- Epopées célestes. Villa Médicis, Rome (IT), March 1st – May 19, 2024
Reproductions (selection)
- André Breton, la beauté compulsive, exhibition catalog, 1991 : reproduced on pp. 437, 484
- Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Rétrospective, exhibition catalog, 2000 : reproduced on p.116, n°26
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014 : reproduced on p. 184
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion : reproduced on p.326
- Collections Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert, Hommage à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, Ed. Lienart, 2015 : reproduced on p.96
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022 : reproduced on p.56
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024, reproduced on p.57
- Art Brut, collection abcd, Ed. Ville d’Angers, reproduced on p.23
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Fleury Joseph Crépin was born on February 8, 1875, in Hénin-Liétard, in the Pas-de-Calais department, and died on November 10, 1948, in Montigny-en-Gohelle. A plumber, tinsmith, hardware dealer, musician, and dowser, nothing seemed to predestine him for a career in painting. In 1930, he befriended the medium and clairvoyant Victor Simon, who introduced him to spiritualism, before becoming a healer himself. It was at the age of 63, in 1938, that he began to draw and then paint, convinced that his hands were guided by angelic entities.
In 1939, a voice commanded him to paint 300 paintings to end the war. He completed his 300th work on May 7, 1945, the very day of the Nazi surrender—a coincidence that would earn him a lasting mystical aura. His compositions are characterized by rigorous symmetry, multicolored temples and palaces of meticulous precision, reminiscent of mandalas, created in a trance-like state. He produced a total of 345 oil-on-canvas works and 43 “wonderful paintings.” As early as 1945, André Breton acquired two of his works at the inaugural exhibition of the Foyer de l’Art Brut, and Jean Dubuffet made him one of the leading artists of his first major exhibition of art brut in 1949.
Works included in the collections of:
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Centre Pompidou / Musée national d'art moderne, Paris — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq (acquisition lors de la vente de la collection André Breton, 2003) — Collection Antoine de Galbert.
Vanessa Garner
b. 1993 (France)
Totem
Vanessa Garner
Wooden spindles, sprigs of lavender, Thai fabrics, wool, and beads on a base
2025 · 200 cm (78.74 in)
Jeune artiste d’origine franco-thaïlandaise, Vanessa Garner développe une œuvre ancrée dans l’exploration du métissage, de la mémoire et de l’identité. Elle utilise des matériaux naturels — bois, tissus batik, laine, lavandin — qu’elle assemble en installations, objets totémiques et sculptures textiles.
Conçu pour être touché et manipulé, son travail interroge la distance entre l’art et le public et ouvre la voie à des expériences immersives et participatives.La verticalité, la forme du bâton et l’usage de matières naturelles confèrent à son œuvre une dimension universelle, associée aux notions de guidance, de lien entre ciel et terre et de purification. Les tissus thaïlandais, le batik indonésien et la lavande provençale deviennent ainsi les vecteurs d’une narration à la fois intime et collective, établissant un pont entre les cultures et les générations.
Le travail de Vanessa Garner a été présenté lors de nombreuses expositions individuelles et collectives à Strasbourg, Paris, Lille, Zurich et Lausanne. Elle est lauréate de la Fondation Laurent-Vuibert.
Son travail sera présenté à Venise pendant l’édition 2026 de la Biennale dans le cadre de l’exposition Personal Structures au Palazzo Mora.
Œuvres conservées dans les collections de :
Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg — Collections privées, Paris, Lille, Zurich et Lausanne — Résidences : Château de Lourmarin, Fondation Laurent-Vuibert
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Jeune artiste d’origine franco-thaïlandaise, Vanessa Garner développe une œuvre ancrée dans l’exploration du métissage, de la mémoire et de l’identité. Elle utilise des matériaux naturels — bois, tissus batik, laine, lavandin — qu’elle assemble en installations, objets totémiques et sculptures textiles.
Conçu pour être touché et manipulé, son travail interroge la distance entre l’art et le public et ouvre la voie à des expériences immersives et participatives.La verticalité, la forme du bâton et l’usage de matières naturelles confèrent à son œuvre une dimension universelle, associée aux notions de guidance, de lien entre ciel et terre et de purification. Les tissus thaïlandais, le batik indonésien et la lavande provençale deviennent ainsi les vecteurs d’une narration à la fois intime et collective, établissant un pont entre les cultures et les générations.
Le travail de Vanessa Garner a été présenté lors de nombreuses expositions individuelles et collectives à Strasbourg, Paris, Lille, Zurich et Lausanne. Elle est lauréate de la Fondation Laurent-Vuibert.
Son travail sera présenté à Venise pendant l’édition 2026 de la Biennale dans le cadre de l’exposition Personal Structures au Palazzo Mora.
Works included in the collections of:
Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg — Private collections, Paris, Lille, Zurich, and Lausanne — Artist residencies: Château de Lourmarin, Laurent-Vuibert Foundation
Morgane Salmon
b. 1987 (France)
Grand vase aux élégantes fleurs rouges
Morgane Salmon
Glazed ceramic
2024 · 36 x 30 x 30 cm (14.17 x 11.81 x 11.81 in)
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Grand vase aux fleurs élégantes jaunes
Morgane Salmon
Glazed ceramic
2025 · 35 x 30 x 30 cm (13.78 x 11.81 x 11.81 in)
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Cache-pot aux fleurs carnivores rouge orangé et 3 serpents
Morgane Salmon
Glazed ceramic
2024 · 23 x 38 cm (9.06 x 14.96 in)
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Morgane Salmon is a ceramist from Strasbourg born in 1987, who has been working with ceramics since the age of eight.
She established her studio in Strasbourg in 2012 under the name Heurgothique and has been creating a rich variety of works—vases, hybrid sculptures—covered in brightly colored floral and organic motifs, blurring the line between art and craft. She has been exhibiting at the Galerie Ritsch-Fisch in Strasbourg since 2024.
Works included in the collections of:
Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris — Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg — Ceramics Biennial, Guebwiller and Chantemerle-lès-Grignan
Flore SIGRIST
b. 1985 (France)
Le Jardin des délices de Flore
Flore Sigrist
Acrylic on canvas
2024 · 200 x 300 cm (78.74 x 118.11 in)
Signed and numbered (back) : “20243000820”
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Flore Sigrist is a painter and visual artist born in 1985 in Strasbourg. A self-taught prodigy, she has developed a lyrical abstract expressionist style characterized by spontaneous brushstrokes, intense colors, and a tension between order and chaos.
In 1995, at just ten years old, she exhibited 40 works at the Sporting d'Hiver in Monaco during a charity auction organized under the auspices of the Principality, to benefit the Mission Enfance association, in the presence of Prince Rainier III and Prince Albert. It was on this occasion that Alain Renner, then vice president of Sotheby’s France, discovered the young prodigy and took her under his wing—a decisive turning point that launched her international recognition.
In 2011 and 2012, she was ranked among the 30 most sought-after artists under 30 in the international art market, and in 2015, Forbes named her the only French woman on its list of the most influential emerging artists.
Works included in the collections of:
MMM Museum – Sea, Marine, World, Bordeaux (10 monumental works in the permanent collection since June 2019) — National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP), France — Private collections in Monaco and Switzerland
Louis Soutter
1871 (Morges, Switzerland) - 1942 (Ballaigues, Switzerland)
Les Pa/ssions enfermées
Louis Soutter
Indian ink on paper
“Mannerist Period”: 1930–1937 · 34 x 25.5 cm (13.39 x 10.04 in)
No. 2088 in the catalogue raisonné
On the back: “After the emotional / spiritual experience of June 13 / Signed / Louis Soutter”
Au dos : "Après l'émotion / spirituelle du 13 juin / Je signe / Louis Soutter"
Publications
Louis Soutter, Crayon, plume & encre de Chine, Michel Thévoz et Anne-Marie Simond, Ed. Héron, 2002
Reproductions
Louis Soutter, Crayon, plume & encre de Chine, Michel Thévoz et Anne-Marie Simond, Ed. Héron, 2002 : full-page reproduction on p.115
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Louis Soutter was born on June 4, 1871, in Morges, Switzerland. A gifted individual, he excelled in his studies in architecture and engineering, played the violin, and painted; in 1897, he was appointed director of the Department of Art and Design at Colorado College in the United States.
Upon returning to Europe, he gradually sank into poverty and marginalization, eventually ending up in a Swiss hospice. After 1936, with arthritis preventing him from holding a pencil, he painted entirely with his fingers using ink and gouache. His cousin Le Corbusier encouraged him; Jean Dubuffet discovered him in 1945 and included him in his collection of art brut.
Works included in the collections of:
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (MCBA), Lausanne (over 630 works) — MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York — Kunstmuseum Basel — Kunsthaus Zürich — Kunstmuseum Winterthur — Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris
Adolf Wölfli
1864 (Bowil, Switzerland) - 1930 (Bern, Switzerland)
Details on the back
Untitled
Adolf Wölfli
Graphite and colored pencil on paper, both sides
1926 · 59 x 51 cm (23.23 x 20.08 in)
Double-sided work: handwritten notes on the reverse side
Publications (selection)
- Folies de la beauté. abcd, une collection d’art brut, exhibition catalog, Paris, abcd et Actes Sud, 2000
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024
Expositions
- Galerie Messine, Paris (FR), November 7, 1996 – January 31, 1997
- Folies de la beauté. Hôtel de Campredon, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (FR), July 7 – October 15, 2000
- abcd, a collection of art brut. American Folk Art Museum, New York (USA), January 20 – June 30 juin 2001
- abcd, a collection of art brut. John Michael Kohler Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA), November 1st, 2001 – February 10, 2002
- abcd, a collection of art brut. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), 27 avril – 3 août 2002
- abcd, une collection d’art brut. Foire de Cologne (Kunstmesse Köln), Cologne (DE), 4 avril – 9 avril 2003
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), 26 avril – June 29, 2003
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (ITE), Kaustinen (FI), June 27 – 21 septembre 2003
- A corps perdu. abcd, une collection d’art brut. Pavillon des arts, Paris (FR), 29 avril – 26 septembre 2004
- Art Brut, abcd collection. GHMP, Prague (CZ), June 14 - 17 septembre 2006
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Museum of Modern Art Shiga (JP), October 25 - 30 novembre
- World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider). Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort (DE), 24 septembre 2010 - January 9, 2011
- Art Brut. Collection abcd. La maison rouge, Paris (FR), October 18, 2014 - January 18 janvier 2015
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, Musée Würth, Erstein (FR), October 9, 2022 - 21 mai 2023
- Epopées célestes. Villa Médicis, Rome (IT), 1er mars – 19 mai 2024
Reproductions
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014 : reproduced on p. 173
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion : reproduced on p.309
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022 : reproduced on p.136
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024, reproduit en couleurs sur la couverture et p.29
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Details on the back
Untitled
Adolf Wölfli
Graphite and colored pencil on paper, both sides
circa 1920 · 32 x 20 cm (12.60 x 7.87 in)
Double-sided work: handwritten notes on the reverse side
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Adolf Wölfli was born on February 29, 1864, in Bowil, near Bern. An orphan who suffered abuse and poverty from childhood, he was admitted in 1895 to the Waldau psychiatric asylum, where he would spend the rest of his life.
Beginning in 1899, he produced a monumental body of work: more than 1,500 drawings and a fantastical 25,000-page autobiography, blending imaginary realms, musical scores, and geometric symbols. André Breton cited it as “one of the three or four major works of the 20th century.” He was one of the first extraordinary artists to be studied by a psychiatrist, Walter Morgenthaler, as early as 1921.
Works included in the collections of:
Museum of Fine Arts, Bern / Adolf Wölfli Foundation — Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Centre Pompidou / National Museum of Modern Art, Paris — Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Anna Zemánková
1908 (Olomuc, Czech Rep.) - 1988 (Prague, Czech Rep.)
Untitled
Anna Zemánková
Ink, colored pencil, cut-out paper, embroidery, and thread on paper
between 1965 and 1973 · 62 x 45 cm
Signed lower right: “Zemánková”
Publications
- Folies de la beauté. abcd, une collection d’art brut, exhibition catalog, Paris, abcd et Actes Sud, 2000
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion
Expositions
- Galerie Messine, Paris (FR), November 7, 1996 – January 31, 1997
- Folies de la beauté. Hôtel de Campredon, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (FR), July 7 – October 15, 2000
- abcd, a collection of art brut. American Folk Art Museum, New York (USA), January 20 – June 30 juin 2001
- abcd, a collection of art brut. John Michael Kohler Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA), November 1st, 2001 – February 10, 2002
- abcd, a collection of art brut. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), April 27 – August 3, 2002
- abcd, une collection d’art brut. Foire de Cologne (Kunstmesse Köln), Cologne (DE), April 4 – 9 2003
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), April 26 – June 29, 2003
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (ITE), Kaustinen (FI), June 27 – September 21, 2003
- A corps perdu. abcd, une collection d’art brut. Pavillon des arts, Paris (FR), April 29 – September 26, 2004
- Art Brut, abcd collection. GHMP, Prague (CZ), June 14 - September 17, 2006
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Museum of Modern Art Shiga (JP), October 25 - November 30, 2008
- World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider). Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort (DE), September 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011
- Art Brut. Collection abcd. La maison rouge, Paris (FR), October 18, 2014 - January 18, 2015
Reproductions
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion : reproduced on p.240
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Anna Zemánková was born in 1908 in Olomouc, Moravia (now the Czech Republic). A trained dental technician, she began painting at the age of 52 as a way to cope with depression, working early in the morning before her family woke up, in a trance-like state.
She created large floral and organic compositions in ink, pastel, and watercolor, depicting hybrid forms that blended the botanical and the imaginary, imbued with forces she described as magnetic. Honored at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and again in 2024, she is now recognized as one of the leading female figures in Art Brut.
Works included in the collections of:
Centre Pompidou, Paris — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — Art Brut Collection, Lausanne
Carlo Zinelli
1916 (San Giovanni Lupatoto, Italy) - 1974 (Vérone, Italy)
Tavoli Verdi e figura piegata blu stellata · 468 A
Cavallo su cerchi con figura barbuta tra le zampe · 468 B
Carlo Zinelli
Gouache on paper, double-sided work
January 14, 1967 · 70 x 50 cm (27.56 x 19.69 in)
No. 468 A and 468 B in the general catalog
Publications
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique., catalogue d’exposition, 2024
Expositions
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg (FR), January 19 - February 24, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Metropolitan Pavilion, New-York (USA), February 29 - March 3, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. L’Appart Renoma, Paris (FR), April 3 - May 17, 2024
- A Summer in the mountains, Galerie Ritsch-Fisch x Norki, Gstaad (CH), August 9 - September 15, 2025
Reproductions
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002 : reproduced on p.315
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Grande uomo con fez e figure neri · 715 A
Grande uomo con fez e donna neri · 715 B
Carlo Zinelli
Gouache on paper, double-sided work
March 25, 1968 · 70 x 50 cm (27.56 x 19.69 in)
N°715 A et 715 B du catalogue général
Publications
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique., catalogue d’exposition, 2024
Expositions
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg (FR), 19 janvier - 24 février 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique. Metropolitan Pavilion, New-York (USA), 29 février - 3 mars 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique. L’Appart Renoma, Paris (FR), 3 avril - 17 mai 2024
- Un été à la montagne. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch x Norki, Gstaad (CH), 9 août - 15 septembre 2025
Reproductions
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002 : reproduction p.510
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Pesce stellato blu, alpino con penna e case · 729 A
Due grandi alpine dai nasi a spirale e penna blu · 729 B
Carlo Zinelli
Gouache and graphite on paper (729 A); gouache on paper (729 B); double-sided work
April 29, 1968 · 70 x 50 cm (27.56 x 19.69 in)
No. 729 A and 729 B in the general catalog
This double-sided work by Carlo Zinelli unfolds a world of great intensity, true to the artist’s spirit. On each side, two large stylized silhouettes—one blue, the other red—face each other or respond to one another, crisscrossed by circular patterns and openings, like human archetypes or totemic figures. Surrounding them, a constellation of objects, animals, houses, and symbols is arranged in a space without perspective, where the narrative is constructed through repetition and variations in scale. The composition is punctuated by handwritten text that dominates the surface, blending words, fragments of sentences, and onomatopoeia.
Far from being purely informative, this writing becomes a visual element in its own right, reinforcing the work’s sonic and interior dimension. The palette, dominated by deep blue, carmine red, and a few touches of yellow, structures a whole in which we find echoes of Zinelli’s rural memory—his memories of the countryside—but also traces of his experience of war and psychiatric asylum: animals and enigmatic forms, houses, objects.
A singular detail catches the eye: inside a circle, a cigarette burn, made by the artist himself, pierces the surface. This gesture, both spontaneous and laden with meaning, introduces a tactile and almost ritualistic dimension to the work, like a signature or a mark of time that runs through the narrative.
Publications
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique., catalogue d’exposition, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002, reproduit p.519
Expositions
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg (FR), January 19 - February 24, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Metropolitan Pavilion, New-York (USA), February 29 - March 3, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. L’Appart Renoma, Paris (FR), April 3 - May 17, 2024
- A Summer in the mountains, Galerie Ritsch-Fisch x Norki, Gstaad (CH), August 9 - 15 septembre 2025
Reproductions
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002 : reproduced on p.519
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Carlo Zinelli was born in 1916 in San Giovanni Lupatoto, near Verona. After fighting in the Spanish Civil War, he went through a period of profound mental instability that led to his permanent admission in 1947 to the San Giacomo Psychiatric Hospital in Verona, where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Referred to the hospital’s art studio in 1957, he produced nearly 3,000 works over fifteen years: compositions of repetitive silhouettes in red and blue on a white background, executed with an obsessive and fascinating visual logic. Exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2013, he is now recognized as a leading figure in the global art brut movement.
Works included in the collections of:
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York — Centre Pompidou, Paris — Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq — American Folk Art Museum, New York
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Art Monte-Carlo 2026 · Booth E3
April 29 - May 1st, 2026 · Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Opening on April 28, 2026 (by invitation only)
A.C.M.
Aloïse
Hervé Bohnert
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
Vanessa Garner
Morgane Salmon
Flore Sigrist
Louis Soutter
Adolf Wölfli
Anna Zemánková
Carlo Zinelli
A.C.M.
1951-2023 (Hargicourt, France)
Untitled
A.C.M. (Alfred Corinne Marié)
Assembly of electrical components and mirrors
circa 2020 · 87 x 58 x 5 cm (34.25 x 22.83 x 1.97 in)
Created around 2020, this work takes the form of a relief painting that lies somewhere between an abstract circuit, an architectural facade, and a mental map.
The painted wooden panel within the work is entirely covered with sections of electrical cables and small mechanical parts, arranged in tight geometric patterns: concentric circles, triangles, diagonals, and networks of points that echo across the entire surface. This methodical repetition creates a hypnotic grid, evoking a diagram of interconnected elements.
At regular intervals, fragments of mirror are inserted into the composition like openings or screens. These reflective surfaces capture and fragment the light, integrating the audience and the space into the work, while introducing an unstable depth that breaks the frontal nature of the painting.
The contrast between the light background and the dark, compact material of the sawed cables gives the whole a strong graphic presence, straddling the line between drawing and sculpture. The rigor of the composition is, however, punctuated by slight irregularities, which disrupt its reading and maintain a constant visual tension.
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Untitled
A.C.M. (Alfred Corinne Marié)
Assembly of electrical components and mirrors
circa 2020 · 102,5 x 82,5 x 4 cm (40.35 x 32.48 x 1.57 in)
This work, created around 2020, takes the form of a large-scale relief painting, composed entirely of sections of electrical cable and fragments of mirror. These materials form a dense, layered surface where organic and industrial elements intertwine.
Large white forms, evoking leaves or vines, spread across the entire surface in a continuous tangle, comparable to a superimposed network of vegetation. The mirror fragments reveal a fragmented background, composed of colored reflections and fragments of the surrounding space, recomposed as the audience moves.
The surface thus acts as an unstable plane, integrating light, ambient colors, and the presence of the audience into the very heart of the composition.
The contrast between the opaque density of the white forms and the reflective depth of the mirrors generates a constant visual vibration. The work oscillates between opacity and transparency, between drawing and light, as if abstract vegetation were gradually covering a glass surface. The methodical repetition of cable sections evokes a patient process transforming an industrial material into a lace-like structure.
Building on her research into electrical materials and mirrors, the artist creates here an inverted landscape, where organic forms present themselves as a field of floating perceptions.
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A.C.M. is the pseudonym of Francis Alfred Marié, born on February 23, 1951, in Hargicourt (Aisne) and who died in 2023. The acronym combines his own initials with those of his partner Corinne, whose support was central to his creative process. After a brief stint at the Beaux-Arts in Tourcoing, which he left by destroying his work, he moved into the former family weaving mill in the mid-1970s. There, he assembled natural and recycled materials—stones, bark, wire, typewriters—to produce sculptures with complex and dense architecture, straddling the line between art brut and singular art.
Works included in the collections of:
Centre Pompidou, Paris — LaM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art of Lille Métropole — Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Antoine de Galbert and Bruno Decharme Collection — Museum of Everything, London — New Museum, New York
Aloïse (Aloïse CORBAZ, aka)
1886 (Lausanne, Switzerland) - 1964 (Gimel, Switzerland)
Gloire à Dieu Rosière
Aloïse Corbaz
Oil pastel on paper
between 1960 and 1963 (5th period) · 70 x 100 cm (27.56 x 39.37 in)
No. 497 in the catalogue raisonné
Lower right: “Glory to God Rosière”
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La Muerte Lucrèce Borgia (front)
Rivoli (back)
Aloïse Corbaz
Colored pencils and graphite on paper, both sides
between 1924 and 1941 (2nd period) · 29 x 21 cm (11.42 x 8.27 in)
Nos. 26.01 and 26.02 of the catalogue raisonné
Inscription (front): “La Muerte Lucrezia Borgia Rivoli”
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Aloïse Corbaz was born on June 28, 1886, in Lausanne. Working as a governess in Germany before World War I, she developed a fascination with Emperor Wilhelm II and harbored a secret dream of becoming an opera singer. In 1918, she was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland, where she would spend more than 40 years.
There, she secretly produced over 2,000 drawings depicting voluptuous female figures and embracing couples, created using flower petals, herbs, or cherry juice. Jean Dubuffet deeply admired her, and she was one of the central figures who inspired his theorization of Art Brut after World War II.
Works included in the collections of:
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne — Centre Pompidou, Paris — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq — American Folk Art Museum, New York — Kunstmuseum Solothurn — Museum of Art and History at Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris — La Fabuloserie, Dicy
Hervé Bohnert
b. 1967 (France)
Untitled
Hervé Bohnert
Fabric skull with embroidery
2026 · approx. 14 x 14 x 18 cm (approx. 5.51 x 5.51 x 7.09 in)
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Hervé Bohnert
Fabric skull with embroidery
2026 · approx. 14 x 14 x 18 cm (approx. 5.51 x 5.51 x 7.09 in)
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Born in 1967, Hervé Bohnert lives and works in Strasbourg.
A self-taught artist, he explores memory, disappearance, and representations of death, drawing closely on his Alsatian heritage. His practice combines sculpture, painting, interventions on old photographs, and textile work. He transforms objects steeped in history into vehicles for reflection. His work draws inspiration from dances of death and funeral narratives, reinterpreted through a tension between gravity and irony. His works, shaped by the fragility of the materials themselves, create a dialogue between personal memory and collective memory.
Works held in the collections of:
Antoine de Galbert Collection - Volot Collection - Fondation Francès - Museum of Everything, London - Musée de la Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris - Private collections in the U.S. and Paris
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
1875 (Hénin-Beaumont, France) -1948 (Montigny-en-Gohelle, France)
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Fleury-Joseph Crépin
Oil on canvas
12.1939 · 45 x 30 cm (17.72 x 11.81 in)
Signed lower right: “Crepin Fy – JH; JH Crepin – F. 12-1939 No. 50”
On the back: “JH Crepin F. 12-1939 No. 50”
Foyer de l’Art Brut
Former André Breton Collection
Publications (selection)
- André Breton, la beauté compulsive, exhibition catalog, 1991
- Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Rétrospective, exhibition catalog, 2000
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion
- Collections Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert, Hommage à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, Ed. Lienart, 2015
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024
- Art Brut, collection abcd, Ed. Ville d’Angers
Expositions (selection)
- André Breton, la beauté compulsive, Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), 1991
- Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Rétrospective, Musée d’Art Moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve-d’Ascq (FR), 2000
- abcd, a collection of art brut. American Folk Art Museum, New York (USA), January 20 – June 30, 2001
- abcd, a collection of art brut. John Michael Kohler Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA), November 1st, 2001 – February 10, 2002
- abcd, a collection of art brut. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), April 27 – August 3, 2002
- abcd, une collection d’art brut. Foire de Cologne (Kunstmesse Köln), Cologne (DE), April 4 – 9, 2003
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), April 26 – June 29, 2003
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (ITE), Kaustinen (FI), June 27 – September 21, 2003
- A corps perdu. abcd, une collection d’art brut. Pavillon des arts, Paris (FR), April 29 – September 26, 2004
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Passion and Action. House of Shiseido, Tokyo (JP), September 27 - November 27, 2005
- Art Brut, abcd collection. GHMP, Prague (CZ), June 14 - September 17, 2006
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Museum of Modern Art Shiga (JP), October 25 - November 30, 2008
- World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider). Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort (DE), September 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011
- Art Brut. Collection abcd. La maison rouge, Paris (FR), October 18, 2014 - January 18, 2015
- Elevations. Collections Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert. Hommage à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval. Hauterives (FR), Le Palais idéal du facteur Cheval, April 30 – August 30, 2015
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, Musée Würth, Erstein (FR), October 9, 2022 - May 21, 2023
- Epopées célestes. Villa Médicis, Rome (IT), March 1st – May 19, 2024
Reproductions (selection)
- André Breton, la beauté compulsive, exhibition catalog, 1991 : reproduced on pp. 437, 484
- Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Rétrospective, exhibition catalog, 2000 : reproduced on p.116, n°26
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014 : reproduced on p. 184
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion : reproduced on p.326
- Collections Bruno Decharme et Antoine de Galbert, Hommage à Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, Ed. Lienart, 2015 : reproduced on p.96
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022 : reproduced on p.56
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024, reproduced on p.57
- Art Brut, collection abcd, Ed. Ville d’Angers, reproduced on p.23
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Fleury Joseph Crépin was born on February 8, 1875, in Hénin-Liétard, in the Pas-de-Calais department, and died on November 10, 1948, in Montigny-en-Gohelle. A plumber, tinsmith, hardware dealer, musician, and dowser, nothing seemed to predestine him for a career in painting. In 1930, he befriended the medium and clairvoyant Victor Simon, who introduced him to spiritualism, before becoming a healer himself. It was at the age of 63, in 1938, that he began to draw and then paint, convinced that his hands were guided by angelic entities.
In 1939, a voice commanded him to paint 300 paintings to end the war. He completed his 300th work on May 7, 1945, the very day of the Nazi surrender—a coincidence that would earn him a lasting mystical aura. His compositions are characterized by rigorous symmetry, multicolored temples and palaces of meticulous precision, reminiscent of mandalas, created in a trance-like state. He produced a total of 345 oil-on-canvas works and 43 “wonderful paintings.” As early as 1945, André Breton acquired two of his works at the inaugural exhibition of the Foyer de l’Art Brut, and Jean Dubuffet made him one of the leading artists of his first major exhibition of art brut in 1949.
Works included in the collections of:
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Centre Pompidou / Musée national d'art moderne, Paris — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq (acquisition lors de la vente de la collection André Breton, 2003) — Collection Antoine de Galbert.
Vanessa Garner
b. 1993 (France)
Totem
Vanessa Garner
Wooden spindles, sprigs of lavender, Thai fabrics, wool, and beads on a base
2025 · 200 cm (78.74 in)
Designed to be touched and handled, Vanessa Garner’s work explores the distance between art and the public and paves the way for immersive and participatory experiences.
The verticality, the shape of the staff, and the use of natural materials lend her work a universal dimension, associated with notions of guidance, the connection between heaven and earth, and purification. Thai fabrics and Provençal lavender thus become the vehicles for a narrative that is both intimate and collective, building a bridge between cultures and generations.
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A young artist of French-Thai descent, Vanessa Garner creates work rooted in an exploration of cultural hybridity, memory, and identity. She uses natural materials—wood, batik fabrics, wool, and lavender—which she assembles into installations, totemic objects, and textile sculptures.
Vanessa Garner’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Strasbourg, Paris, Lille, Zurich, and Lausanne. She is a recipient of the Laurent-Vuibert Foundation award.
Her work will be presented in Venice during the 2026 edition of the Biennale as part of the exhibition Personal Structures at Palazzo Mora.
Works included in the collections of:
Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg — Private collections, Paris, Lille, Zurich, and Lausanne — Artist residencies: Château de Lourmarin, Laurent-Vuibert Foundation
Morgane Salmon
b. 1987 (France)
Grand vase aux élégantes fleurs rouges
Morgane Salmon
Glazed ceramic
2024 · 36 x 30 x 30 cm (14.17 x 11.81 x 11.81 in)
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Grand vase aux fleurs élégantes jaunes
Morgane Salmon
Glazed ceramic
2025 · 35 x 30 x 30 cm (13.78 x 11.81 x 11.81 in)
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Cache-pot aux fleurs carnivores rouge orangé et 3 serpents
Morgane Salmon
Glazed ceramic
2024 · 23 x 38 cm (9.06 x 14.96 in)
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Morgane Salmon is a ceramist from Strasbourg born in 1987, who has been working with ceramics since the age of eight.
She established her studio in Strasbourg in 2012 under the name Heurgothique and has been creating a rich variety of works—vases, hybrid sculptures—covered in brightly colored floral and organic motifs, blurring the line between art and craft. She has been exhibiting at the Galerie Ritsch-Fisch in Strasbourg since 2024.
Works included in the collections of:
Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris — Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg — Ceramics Biennial, Guebwiller and Chantemerle-lès-Grignan
Flore SIGRIST
b. 1985 (France)
Le Jardin des délices de Flore
Flore Sigrist
Acrylic on canvas
2024 · 200 x 300 cm (78.74 x 118.11 in)
Signed and numbered (back) : “20243000820”
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Flore Sigrist is a painter and visual artist born in 1985 in Strasbourg. A self-taught prodigy, she has developed a lyrical abstract expressionist style characterized by spontaneous brushstrokes, intense colors, and a tension between order and chaos.
In 1995, at just ten years old, she exhibited 40 works at the Sporting d'Hiver in Monaco during a charity auction organized under the auspices of the Principality, to benefit the Mission Enfance association, in the presence of Prince Rainier III and Prince Albert. It was on this occasion that Alain Renner, then vice president of Sotheby’s France, discovered the young prodigy and took her under his wing—a decisive turning point that launched her international recognition.
In 2011 and 2012, she was ranked among the 30 most sought-after artists under 30 in the international art market, and in 2015, Forbes named her the only French woman on its list of the most influential emerging artists.
Works included in the collections of:
MMM Museum – Sea, Marine, World, Bordeaux (10 monumental works in the permanent collection since June 2019) — National Center for Visual Arts (CNAP), France — Private collections in Monaco and Switzerland
Louis Soutter
1871 (Morges, Switzerland) - 1942 (Ballaigues, Switzerland)
Les Pa/ssions enfermées
Louis Soutter
Indian ink on paper
“Mannerist Period”: 1930–1937 · 34 x 25.5 cm (13.39 x 10.04 in)
No. 2088 in the catalogue raisonné
On the back: "Après l'émotion / spirituelle du 13 juin / Je signe / Louis Soutter" [“After the emotional / spiritual experience of June 13 / Signed / Louis Soutter”]
Publications
Louis Soutter, Crayon, plume & encre de Chine, Michel Thévoz et Anne-Marie Simond, Ed. Héron, 2002
Reproductions
Louis Soutter, Crayon, plume & encre de Chine, Michel Thévoz et Anne-Marie Simond, Ed. Héron, 2002 : full-page reproduction on p.115
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Louis Soutter was born on June 4, 1871, in Morges, Switzerland. A gifted individual, he excelled in his studies in architecture and engineering, played the violin, and painted; in 1897, he was appointed director of the Department of Art and Design at Colorado College in the United States.
Upon returning to Europe, he gradually sank into poverty and marginalization, eventually ending up in a Swiss hospice. After 1936, with arthritis preventing him from holding a pencil, he painted entirely with his fingers using ink and gouache. His cousin Le Corbusier encouraged him; Jean Dubuffet discovered him in 1945 and included him in his collection of art brut.
Works included in the collections of:
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (MCBA), Lausanne (over 630 works) — MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York — Kunstmuseum Basel — Kunsthaus Zürich — Kunstmuseum Winterthur — Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris
Adolf Wölfli
1864 (Bowil, Switzerland) - 1930 (Bern, Switzerland)
Details on the back
Untitled
Adolf Wölfli
Graphite and colored pencil on paper, both sides
1926 · 59 x 51 cm (23.23 x 20.08 in)
Double-sided work: handwritten notes on the reverse side
Publications (selection)
- Folies de la beauté. abcd, une collection d’art brut, exhibition catalog, Paris, abcd et Actes Sud, 2000
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024
Expositions (selection)
- Galerie Messine, Paris (FR), November 7, 1996 – January 31, 1997
- Folies de la beauté. Hôtel de Campredon, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (FR), July 7 – October 15, 2000
- abcd, a collection of art brut. American Folk Art Museum, New York (USA), January 20 – June 30 juin 2001
- abcd, a collection of art brut. John Michael Kohler Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA), November 1st, 2001 – February 10, 2002
- abcd, a collection of art brut. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), April 27 – August 3, 2002
- abcd, une collection d’art brut. Foire de Cologne (Kunstmesse Köln), Cologne (DE), April 4 – 9 2003
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), April 26 – June 29, 2003
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (ITE), Kaustinen (FI), June 27 – September 21, 2003
- A corps perdu. abcd, une collection d’art brut. Pavillon des arts, Paris (FR), April 29 – September 26, 2004
- Art Brut, abcd collection. GHMP, Prague (CZ), June 14 - September 17, 2006
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Museum of Modern Art Shiga (JP), October 25 - November 30, 2008
- World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider). Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort (DE), September 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011
- Art Brut. Collection abcd. La maison rouge, Paris (FR), October 18, 2014 - January 18, 2015
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, Musée Würth, Erstein (FR), October 9, 2022 - May 21, 2023
- Epopées célestes. Villa Médicis, Rome (IT), March 1st – May 19, 2024
Reproductions
- Art Brut, collection abcd/Bruno Decharme, Ed. Fage, Paris, 2014 : reproduced on p. 173
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion : reproduced on p.309
- Art brut. Un dialogue singulier avec la Collection Würth, exhibition catalog, 2022 : reproduced on p.136
- Epopées Célestes, exhibition catalog, Ed. Empire, Rome, 2024, reproduced in color on the cover and on p. 29
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Details on the back
Untitled
Adolf Wölfli
Graphite and colored pencil on paper, both sides
circa 1920 · 32 x 20 cm (12.60 x 7.87 in)
Double-sided work: handwritten notes on the reverse side
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Adolf Wölfli was born on February 29, 1864, in Bowil, near Bern. An orphan who suffered abuse and poverty from childhood, he was admitted in 1895 to the Waldau psychiatric asylum, where he would spend the rest of his life.
Beginning in 1899, he produced a monumental body of work: more than 1,500 drawings and a fantastical 25,000-page autobiography, blending imaginary realms, musical scores, and geometric symbols. André Breton cited it as “one of the three or four major works of the 20th century.” He was one of the first extraordinary artists to be studied by a psychiatrist, Walter Morgenthaler, as early as 1921.
Works included in the collections of:
Museum of Fine Arts, Bern / Adolf Wölfli Foundation — Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — Centre Pompidou / National Museum of Modern Art, Paris — Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Anna Zemánková
1908 (Olomuc, Czech Rep.) - 1988 (Prague, Czech Rep.)
Untitled
Anna Zemánková
Ink, colored pencil, cut-out paper, embroidery, and thread on paper
between 1965 and 1973 · 62 x 45 cm
Signed lower right: “Zemánková”
Publications
- Folies de la beauté. abcd, une collection d’art brut, exhibition catalog, Paris, abcd et Actes Sud, 2000
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion
Expositions
- Galerie Messine, Paris (FR), November 7, 1996 – January 31, 1997
- Folies de la beauté. Hôtel de Campredon, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (FR), July 7 – October 15, 2000
- abcd, a collection of art brut. American Folk Art Museum, New York (USA), January 20 – June 30 juin 2001
- abcd, a collection of art brut. John Michael Kohler Center Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA), November 1st, 2001 – February 10, 2002
- abcd, a collection of art brut. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), April 27 – August 3, 2002
- abcd, une collection d’art brut. Foire de Cologne (Kunstmesse Köln), Cologne (DE), April 4 – 9 2003
- abcd, a collection of art brut. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (USA), April 26 – June 29, 2003
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (ITE), Kaustinen (FI), June 27 – September 21, 2003
- A corps perdu. abcd, une collection d’art brut. Pavillon des arts, Paris (FR), April 29 – September 26, 2004
- Art Brut, abcd collection. GHMP, Prague (CZ), June 14 - September 17, 2006
- Masterpieces of abcd collection. Museum of Modern Art Shiga (JP), October 25 - November 30, 2008
- World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider). Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort (DE), September 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011
- Art Brut. Collection abcd. La maison rouge, Paris (FR), October 18, 2014 - January 18, 2015
Reproductions
- Art brut, collection abcd Bruno Decharme. Bruno Decharme, Barbara Safarova, & Collectif, 2014, Paris, Ed. Flammarion : reproduced on p.240
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Anna Zemánková was born in 1908 in Olomouc, Moravia (now the Czech Republic). A trained dental technician, she began painting at the age of 52 as a way to cope with depression, working early in the morning before her family woke up, in a trance-like state.
She created large floral and organic compositions in ink, pastel, and watercolor, depicting hybrid forms that blended the botanical and the imaginary, imbued with forces she described as magnetic. Honored at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and again in 2024, she is now recognized as one of the leading female figures in Art Brut.
Works included in the collections of:
Centre Pompidou, Paris — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — Art Brut Collection, Lausanne
Carlo Zinelli
1916 (San Giovanni Lupatoto, Italy) - 1974 (Vérone, Italy)
Tavoli Verdi e figura piegata blu stellata · 468 A
Cavallo su cerchi con figura barbuta tra le zampe · 468 B
Carlo Zinelli
Gouache on paper, double-sided work
January 14, 1967 · 70 x 50 cm (27.56 x 19.69 in)
No. 468 A and 468 B in the general catalog
Publications
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique., catalogue d’exposition, 2024
Expositions
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg (FR), January 19 - February 24, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Metropolitan Pavilion, New-York (USA), February 29 - March 3, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. L’Appart Renoma, Paris (FR), April 3 - May 17, 2024
- A Summer in the mountains, Galerie Ritsch-Fisch x Norki, Gstaad (CH), August 9 - September 15, 2025
Reproductions
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002 : reproduced on p.315
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Grande uomo con fez e figure neri · 715 A
Grande uomo con fez e donna neri · 715 B
Carlo Zinelli
Gouache on paper, double-sided work
March 25, 1968 · 70 x 50 cm (27.56 x 19.69 in)
No. 715 A and 715 B in the general catalog
Publications
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002
- Carlo Zinelli. Cinquante ans d’héritage artistique, catalogue d’exposition, 2024
Expositions
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg (FR), January 19 - February 24, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Metropolitan Pavilion, New-York (USA), February 29 - March 3, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. L’Appart Renoma, Paris (FR), April 3 - May 17, 2024
- A Summer in the mountains, Galerie Ritsch-Fisch x Norki, Gstaad (CH), August 9 - September 15, 2025
Reproductions
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002 : reproduced on p.510
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Pesce stellato blu, alpino con penna e case · 729 A
Due grandi alpine dai nasi a spirale e penna blu · 729 B
Carlo Zinelli
Gouache and graphite on paper (729 A); gouache on paper (729 B); double-sided work
April 29, 1968 · 70 x 50 cm (27.56 x 19.69 in)
No. 729 A and 729 B in the general catalog
This double-sided work by Carlo Zinelli unfolds a world of great intensity, true to the artist’s spirit. On each side, two large stylized silhouettes—one blue, the other red—face each other or respond to one another, crisscrossed by circular patterns and openings, like human archetypes or totemic figures. Surrounding them, a constellation of objects, animals, houses, and symbols is arranged in a space without perspective, where the narrative is constructed through repetition and variations in scale. The composition is punctuated by handwritten text that dominates the surface, blending words, fragments of sentences, and onomatopoeia.
Far from being purely informative, this writing becomes a visual element in its own right, reinforcing the work’s sonic and interior dimension. The palette, dominated by deep blue, carmine red, and a few touches of yellow, structures a whole in which we find echoes of Zinelli’s rural memory—his memories of the countryside—but also traces of his experience of war and psychiatric asylum: animals and enigmatic forms, houses, objects.
A singular detail catches the eye: inside a circle, a cigarette burn, made by the artist himself, pierces the surface. This gesture, both spontaneous and laden with meaning, introduces a tactile and almost ritualistic dimension to the work, like a signature or a mark of time that runs through the narrative.
Publications
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage, exhibition catalog, 2024
Expositions
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Galerie Ritsch-Fisch, Strasbourg (FR), January 19 - February 24, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. Metropolitan Pavilion, New-York (USA), February 29 - March 3, 2024
- Carlo Zinelli. Fifty Years of Artistic Heritage. L’Appart Renoma, Paris (FR), April 3 - May 17, 2024
- A Summer in the mountains, Galerie Ritsch-Fisch x Norki, Gstaad (CH), August 9 - September 15, 2025
Reproductions
- Carlo Zinelli. Catalogo generale, V. Andreoli, S. Marinelli, Marsilio, Venise, 2002 : reproduced on p.519
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Carlo Zinelli was born in 1916 in San Giovanni Lupatoto, near Verona. After fighting in the Spanish Civil War, he went through a period of profound mental instability that led to his permanent admission in 1947 to the San Giacomo Psychiatric Hospital in Verona, where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Referred to the hospital’s art studio in 1957, he produced nearly 3,000 works over fifteen years: compositions of repetitive silhouettes in red and blue on a white background, executed with an obsessive and fascinating visual logic. Exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2013, he is now recognized as a leading figure in the global art brut movement.
Works included in the collections of:
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York — Centre Pompidou, Paris — Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne — LaM, Villeneuve-d'Ascq — American Folk Art Museum, New York
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