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a red and white sign with a fish on itblack and yellow sticker with a picture of a chicken on itan envelope with a piece of paper taped to it with writing on itan image of a piece of cardboard with a drawing of a man holding a tennis racketdrawing of a drawing of a monster on a piece of papera drawing of a woman sitting on a chair in front of a walla close up of a piece of paper with writing on it
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127 - Xavier Bertola (French, born in 1971)
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Estimate €100 - €300
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Xavier Bertola (French, born in 1971) "I’m mad about free-range chicken", "We don’t give a hoot about fish bones" Two mixed-media works on cardboard. Two submissions from “Berto the funny visual artist”, one dated 23/07/2013. Height 18.5, Width 23.5 cm and Height 19.2, Width 29 cm. Included: Joaquim Baptista Antunes (Portuguese, born 1953), “La courage”, 5 May 1995, felt-tip pens and coloured pencil, signed and dated with a message on the reverse, Height 29.5, Width 21 cm. Provenance: the collection of Laurent Danchin (1946–2017), writer, essayist and art critic, passed down through the family. A French visual artist and performance artist based in Tours, who blends art, education and humour, Bertola has been running workshops in schools, care homes and specialist institutions for over twenty years. Describing himself as a ‘rigologue’, he reaches out to his audience aboard his ‘bertomobile’, also known as the ‘stylograph-writing car’.
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About the sale LAURENT DANCHIN COLLECTION: ART BRUT AND OUTSIDER ART
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Auction time 11/07/2026 at 2:00 PM
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