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Laure Pigeon was born in Paris to a laundress and a day labourer. After her mother died, Laure Pigeon – then just 5 years old – went to live with her paternal grandmother in Brittany, where she received a strict upbringing. Biographical information about her is piecemeal, with no record of her life before she married a dental surgeon at the age of 34. In 1933, she left her husband and ended their 16-year relationship after discovering he had been cheating on her. She moved into a boarding house, where she met a woman who introduced her to spiritualism. A decade or so later, she took up residence in an apartment in the suburbs of Paris, where she pursued her spiritualist practice alone.
Laure Pigeon started drawing in 1935. Her early works feature interlacing lines that stretch and wind across the page like woven threads, tracing forms and the outlines of words. In 1953, she began working almost exclusively in blue ink, creating mysterious, densely packed compositions. She claimed her hands were guided by an outside entity. Her drawings were sometimes based on words – often names – and occasionally incorporated profiles, birds and other figurative details. Her works were discovered in her home after her death.
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Brut writings speak out
Brut writings speak out, boxed set with two CDs and a booklet illustrated, Collection de l’Art Brut, in collaboration with the radio station Espace 2, Swiss broadcasting company Radio Télévision Suisse, 2012.
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The Art Brut Fascicle N°23
The Art Brut Fascicle N°23, 18 x 24 cm, 150 ill. black/white or color, about 160 pp. Since 1964 to 2018. In French. One fascicle CHF 30.-
Price Complete collection, 25 fascicles (N°2 - N°26) : CHF 720.-
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The Art Brut Fascicle N°06
The Art Brut Fascicle N°06, 18 x 24 cm, 150 ill. black/white or color, about 160 pp. Since 1964 to 2013.In French. One fascicle CHF 30.-
Price Complete collection, 25 fascicles (N°2 - N°26) : CHF 720.-
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Écrire en dessinant. Quand la langue cherche son autre (édition française)
Through the work of nearly a hundred contemporary artists and Art Brut personalities, the exhibition Scrivere Disegnando and the catalogue Ecrire en dessinant explore writing’s shadow side. A terra incognita where arabesques, reiterated marks, scribblings, compulsive writings produce “meaning” in a field outside of language by becoming axioms of the unspeakable, of what is unfathomable in the soul as well as in language.
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The Art Brut Fascicle N°25
The Art Brut Fascicle N°25, 18 x 24 cm, 150 ill. black/white or color, about 160 pp. Since 1964 to 2018. In French. One fascicle CHF 30.-
Price Complete collection, 25 fascicles (N°2 - N°26) : CHF 720.-
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Writing by Drawing. when Language Seeks Its Other (English version)
Through the work of nearly a hundred contemporary artists and Art Brut personalities, the exhibition Scrivere Disegnando and the catalogue Writing by Drawing explore writing’s shadow side. A terra incognita where arabesques, reiterated marks, scribblings, compulsive writings produce “meaning” in a field outside of language by becoming axioms of the unspeakable, of what is unfathomable in the soul as well as in language.
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Visages (in french)
Marc Décimo, Sarah Lombardi and Pascal Roman, Faces, Lausanne/Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/5 Continents Editions, 2023, « Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, 153 pages, over 100 color plates, available in French or English.
Croyances (french version)
Emmanuel Grimaud, Sarah Lombardi and Anic Zanzi, Croyances, Lausanne/ Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/ 5 Continents Editions, 2021,« Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi,168 pages, more than 100 color plates, available in french or in english..
Laure Pigeon
Feuillet édité à l'occasion de l'exposition "Laure", Collection de l'Art Brut, 1978.
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Faces (inenglish)
Marc Décimo, Sarah Lombardi and Pascal Roman, Faces,Lausanne/Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/5 Continents Editions, 2023, « Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, 153 pages, over 100 color plates, available in French or English.
Beliefs (english version)
Emmanuel Grimaud, Sarah Lombardi and Anic Zanzi, Beliefs, Lausanne/ Milan, Collectionde l’Art Brut/ 5 Continents Editions, 2021, « Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, 168 pages, over 100 color plates, available in French or English.
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Laure Pigeon, infinite blue
Laure Pigeon, infinite blue, preface bySarah Lombardi, texts by Flavie Beuvin, Anic Zanzi, under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, Lausanne/Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/5 Continents Editions, 2025, 200 pages, french/english
Laure Pigeon, Infinite Blue
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From 10 October 2025 to 1 February 2026
Laure Pigeon, infinitely blue
This new presentation dedicated to this historic figure of Art Brut reveals a broad collection of works, some unpublished, where graphic power, confident gesture, and a sense of composition are evident.
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Every day from 10 am to 8 pm (except Tuesday)
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