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    Aristoloches

    Drawing

    Author

    By (artist) Aloïse Corbaz, dite Aloïse

    Description

    "And what is this world which the uninterrupted fresco of Aloïse celebrates so interminably? Il is very particularly the cosmogony of a woman. No matter how confined she had become in the incorporeal zone of ideas, how foreign to all flesh and real life, how alienated, Aloïse remained a woman-perhaps more wholly so than anyone else for having always so obstinately refused all contact or exchange. Her empyrean is peopled by those elements-crowns of roses, nuptial feasts, legendary loves, brocades and glittering cascades of jewels-which make the world of girls go round. The paintings of Aloïse seem to me to be the only solemnization ever done of them-or at least to my mind with so much authority." Jean Dubuffet ("Haut art d'Aloïse", In: L'Art Brut, volume 7 (Aloïse), 1966, p. 15).

    LanguagesFrench
    Physical description49 x 65,6 cm (19 1/4 x 25 7/8 in.) - Crayons de couleurs sur 4 feuilles jointes (dessin double face), sd
    Breton Auction, 2003Lot 4023
    Keywords,
    CategoriesModern Paintings
    Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100894230