École naïve de la première moitié du XIXe siècle - Lot 147

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École naïve de la première moitié du XIXe siècle - Lot 147
École naïve de la première moitié du XIXe siècle Le Beau Château Oil on canvas. H. 64 cm - W. 97 cm . Reinterlining. Provenance: Old Aubry Collection. Bibliography: Anatole Jakovsky, La peinture naïve, Paris, Jacques Damase, 1949, reproduced p.23. Les Gourmandises de Jean-Yvesroux Ça m'est égal, de manquer ma vie. I don't aim. I shoot in the air, on the side of the clouds. This quote from the Journal de Jules Renard (year 1925), Jean-Yves Roux had made it his motto. Free, dreamy, fascinated by the strange, the bizarre, the out of the ordinary, he collected objects of curiosity from the age of 20 (we remember this incredible taxidermy of an exalted monkey wearing a cap, riding a goat more surprised than willing...). The encounter with art soon followed, but not just any art, that of the Singulars. These Singularities of Art, which the ARC exhibited at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1978 and which Suzanne Pagé described in the preface to the catalogue as a "sampling of a multiple production [wanting] to bear witness to the too much, the excess, the barbarity, life itself, that is to say its very excess, its essential savagery" Jean-Yves Roux belongs to the generation that closely followed the great discoverers Anatole Jakovsky for Naïve Art and Jean Dubuffet for Art Brut. Less dogmatic and doctrinaire than these tumultuous elders, J.-Y. Roux, like Alain Bourbonnais and his Fabuloserie or Gérard Sandrey and his creation site Franche, militated for the recognition and the valorization of a non-cultural art, creations of self-taught or anonymous people, driven by freedom, creativity, even madness. His extraordinarily rich adventure first took shape in his gallery, initially named Nasara, then Matara, lighthouse of the Marseille counterculture for more than 40 years, located at 24 rue Saint-Jacques. Proud to share his discoveries, he was a scholarly smuggler with dilettante elegance. He also initiated
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