Sauphar Serge 1922 - 1987. Portrait Of Marcel Bigeard

SAUPHAR Serge 1922-1987. Portrait of General Marcel Bigeard. “Born out of wedlock, he was recognized by his father without ever really finding his place in a family quickly bereaved by the death of the last in 1929. Sauphar was raised by his mother, an artist. As a teenager, he suffered from tuberculosis and was sent to a sanatorium under his mother's name - which may have saved him from the deportation of which his half-brother was the victim (his father had made a "suitable" marriage after the birth of Serge). In 1948, at the age of twenty-six, he was interned in Ville-Évrard for an episode of wandering and confusion. He remained in Dr. Dublineau's service for six years, then he was transferred to the Esquirol hospital in Saint-Maurice in the department of Professor Baruk, who was succeeded by Professor Lantéri-Laura. He died there in 1987 after an uninterrupted hospitalization during which he was “the painter” for all those who approached him. He had managed to create his own workshop where he worked tirelessly, where he received passing visitors to whom he always offered works, even art books, because he was convinced that art would be the redemption of the world. : he contributed in his own way, using the funds he had inherited. Funds that would have allowed him to go to a comfortable private clinic, but he did not want to leave the hospital. His work follows in the tradition of his father and grandfather, both great collectors, particularly of Asian arts, and demonstrates unusual erudition. Its literary and artistic culture does not neglect great historical knowledge either. It is as if intertwined with his personal history and his quest for identity” extract ABCD Art Brut, Bruno Decharme collection collage of a sheet on a sheet Note: wear