Excerpt:
...Of all the practitioners of Art Brut, Aloïse
Corbaz, known simply as Aloïse, shines with an exceptional
brilliance. Consumed by frustrated passion and confined
to an institution for most of her life, she created
her own private universe, expressing her grief and her
longing through a prodigious outpouring of words and
images rich in colour and allusion.
Cloisonné
de théâtre, 1951, coloured pencil, oil pastel and
thread on paper,
553 x 39 ins.,1404 x 99 cm.Photo: Philip Bernard.
Collection Philippe Eternod et Jean David Mermod, Lausanne.
Housed at Musée d’art moderne, Lille Métropole, Villeneuve
d’Ascq.
