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Fernand MICHEL (1913-1999). Composition. Mixed...

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Fernand MICHEL (1913-1999). Composition. Mixed media on paper signed lower right and dated lower left 1963. Height 21.8 - W 29.8 cm (unframed) Provenance : Collection Claude et Sylvette Féraud. Surrealist artist, co-founder of the Fata Morgana publishing house and member of the Phase group. Fernand Michel was a resolutely unconventional artist, on the frontier of Art Brut. His galvanized work reveals a fertile imagination, where the profane rubs shoulders with the sacred. His works can be seen at the Musée d'Art Brut in Montpellier, alongside those of Aloïse Corbaz, Adolf Wölfli, Baya, Augustin Lesage...