Exceptional bequests of drawings by Aloïse Corbaz to the Collection de l'Art Brut

The Collection de l’Art Brut has just received two exceptional  bequests of works by Aloïse Corbaz (1886-1964).

A drawing of highest quality, done in colored pencil, was recently bequeathed by a collector in honor of Jacqueline Porret-Forel, who passed away in 2014. Ms. Porret-Forel was a specialist in Aloïse's oeuvre and, as such, was reponsible for drawing up a catalogue raisonné of that creator's oeuvre. The catalogue, which went online in 2012  thanks to the collaboration of the Swiss Institute for the Study of Art, accompanied the two solo shows of this creator's work: entitled "Aloïse. The Solar Ricochet," the shows were mounted simultaneously at Lausanne's Cantonal Fine Arts Museum and Lausanne's Collection de l'Art Brut.

Two splendid, heretofore unknown scrolls, done in pastel crayon and measuring 289 x 42 cm each, were bequeathed by a couple of donors. Unrevealed until now, the two works are not listed in the catalogue raisonné. These drawings complete the Collection de l'Art Brut's current holdings of 188 pieces, as well as the holdings of works by Aloïse Corbaz transferred from Lausanne's Museum of Fine Arts in 1986.

The Collection de l'Art Brut  owns the largest body of works by Aloïse: these belong to the discoveries made by Jean Dubuffet in Switzerland and comprise drawings that can be seen permanently in the exhibition featuring the museum collections.

Aloïse Corbaz
Le baiser du brantard [the kiss of the wine grower], btw. 1951 and 1960.
Colored pencil on salvaged paper, 59.5 x 42.5 cm
Photo : Mijanou Gold/ Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne

 

Publish Date: 27.01.2015