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Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve
French
nationality
Born in Bordeaux in 1863
Dies in Bordeaux in April 1934
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| Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve is a mosaicist as is his father,
but his secret passion is collecting. He is interested in arts of all sorts,
from all times. Through his job, he restores Gallo-Roman mosaics. In 1928,
he is nominated "Best Worker of France" for the portrait he made of Sadi
Carnot. At the age of sixty-four, he decides to make heads out of shells,
a sort of "gallery of illustrious people", fifteen of them, all made in
one year. He calls them "Treacherous Rogues from Europe" and names a few
of them: the Tartar, the Chinese, the Teuton, the Devil, and also Queen
Victoria and William II. |
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| Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve is a perfect example of the
non-premeditated approach, characteristic of Art Brut. His masks emerge
from playing with found objects, without any concern for the end result.
It is the work of an ordinary man but a work full of talent. A spontaneous
and poetic vision, which can, however, ridicule those in high positions.
A way for Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve to tell us that there is no such thing
as "father figure". |
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| SEE ALSO: Publications de la Compagnie de
l'Art Brut, fascicule 3, text of Michèle Edelmann, Paris, 1965. |
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