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Born in the mining region of the Pas-de-Calais, France, Gaston Duf came from a family of ten children. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a baker but was dismissed for incompetence. He subsequently worked at the mine, but his precarious health forced him to take frequent absences. Eventually he no longer even attempted to work, taking refuge in alcohol before being confined in a psychiatric hospital in Lille at 20 years of age.
Some years later his doctor noticed that he was hiding drawings in the lining of his clothes, which were done in lead pencil in the margins of newspapers and depicted monstrous creatures. The doctor then provided crayons and tubes of gouache, as well as sheets of paper.
Gaston Duf started to produce compositions in larger formats. Recurrent subjects are a clown-like figure and a protean beast that he called a rhinoceros. Furthermore, he spelt this word differently every time he drew this animal.
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Jean Dubuffet's Art Brut, the origins of the collection (2016) New edition 2020
L'Art Brut de Jean Dubuffet, aux origines de la collection [Jean Dubuffet's Art Brut, the origins of the collection], directed by Sarah Lombardi, with texts by Sarah Lombardi a.o., Lausanne, Paris: Collection de l'Art Brut, Flammarion, 2016, 224 pp, 170 color illus., bilingual French/English.
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Bonhomme d'Art Brut
Bonhomme d'Art Brut, Paris, Editions Thierry Magnier, 2015,24 x 20 cm, 28 pages.
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The Art Brut Fascicle N°05
The Art Brut Fascicle N°05, 18 x 24 cm, 150 ill. black/white or color, about 160 pp. Since 1964 to 2013.In French. One fascicle CHF 30.-
Price Complete collection, 25 fascicles (N°2 - N°26) : CHF 720.-
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Théâtres (french version )
Pascale Jeanneret, Sarah Lombardi and Eric Vautrin, Théâtres, Lausanne/ Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/ 5 Continents Editions, 2019, « Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, 144 pages, more than 100 colour plates, french or english version.
Theatre (englixh version)
Pascale Jeanneret, Sarah Lombardi and Eric Vautrin, Theatre, Lausanne/ Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/ 5 Continents Editions, 2019, « Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, 144 pages, more than 100 colour plates, french or english version.
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