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Estimate €300 - €500
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A collection of drawings featuring around 30 works to discover, including: - Ody Saban (Turkish, born in 1953) - Patrick Chapelière (French, born in 1953) - Joseph A. Kurhajec (American, born 1938) - Jaber Al Mahjoub (Tunisian, 1938–2021) Various techniques. Various formats. Provenance: the collection of Laurent Danchin (1946–2017), writer, essayist and art critic, passed down through the family. Born in Istanbul, trained in Israel and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Ody Saban works in Indian ink and watercolour on Far Eastern papers, developing dense compositions centred on the face and the body, straddling art brut, non-conformist art and surrealism. Laurent Danchin has dedicated an essay to her, ‘Sex as if nothing had happened’, in *Aux frontières de l’art brut: un parcours dans l’art des marges* (Lelivredart, Paris, 2013, 639 pp.). Born in Mayenne into a modest family, Chapelière creates dense compositions of flowers and fantastical architecture on scraps of cardboard, etched with the tip of a Bic pen. Born in Racine (Wisconsin), Kurhajec is a self-taught sculptor who divides his time between the United States, France and Mexico; his expressionist and grotesque work combines wood, bone, horn, plaster, rope and feathers to create animals, totems and composite figures. He is one of the 25 artists featured by Laurent Danchin in *Mycelium: Savant Génie, Génie Brut* (Editions de l’abbaye d’Auberive, Auberive, 2014). Orphaned at a very young age, he worked as a shepherd, then as a baker and a boxer before devoting himself to painting; Jaber was spotted by Jean Dubuffet. His highly colourful gouaches and acrylics, featuring figures outlined in black, address social and political themes; nicknamed ‘the King of Beaubourg’, his work is represented at the LaM in Villeneuve-d’Ascq. Laurent Danchin wrote the catalogue essay ‘Jaber, les oiseaux d’Art Brut’ (for the exhibition at La Gaude, 16–25 September 1991, organised by Valérie Jeaume and Pierre Farro), devoted a chapter to him in *Aux frontières de l’art brut* (Lelivredart, Paris, 2013, pp. 95–104), and co-directed the documentary *Jaber* (1998) with Alan Govenar.
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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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