Full Description
Laure Pigeon (1882-1965) is one of the leading figures in Art Brut (Outsider Art), along with Aloïse Corbaz and Adolf Wölfli. The Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne probably possesses her entire oeuvre, amounting to over 400 works, including writings, notebooks, small-scale drawings and an extensive series of large compositions in blue ink. These are all part of the corpus of works acquired by Jean Dubuffet, the historic collection around which the museum was founded.
In 1978, the Collection de l'Art Brut held the first and only monographic exhibition dedicated to this artist. A new exhibition in 2025 has now been devoted to her exclusively. It offers a representative selection of her striking graphic work, spanning a period of 30 years.
Like Madge Gill, Jeanne Tripier, Augustin Lesage and Raphaël Lonné, Laure Pigeon too was a member of the spiritualist fraternity - men and women who feel "selected" to receive messages from the hereafter and claim the deceased are responsible for their creations. The spiritualist's hand is therefore guided and merely executes what the spirits dictate.
The catalogue, in French and English, includes essays by several authors and a large number of colour illustrations.
Text in English and French.
Contents
9 Préface
9 Preface
SARAH LOMBARDI
13 Les énigmes de Laure Pigeon
13 The Enigmas of Laure Pigeon
ANIC ZANZI
33 Laure Pigeon, le maillage des corps
33 Laure Pigeon: The Mesh of Bodies
FLAVIE BEUVIN
42 Catalogue
44 Dessins (1935-1951)
44 Drawings (1935-1951)
58 Cahiers (1938-1951)
58 Sketchbooks (1938-1951)
92 Dessins (1953-1964)
92 Drawings (1953-1964)
153 Les messages spirites
153 Spirit Messages
171 Chronologie
171 Timeline
VANIA VAZ DE FREITAS
186 Biographie des rédactrices
186 Authors' Biographies
188 Bibliographie sélective
188 Selected Bibliography
VINCENT MONOD
