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A mediumistic artist, Raphael Lonné only started to draw in 1950, during a spiritualism session. Discovered by Jean Dubuffet a decade later, he is now considered a classic of this particular category of art brut: spiritual artists. Raphael Lonné has experimented with various techniques, from graphite to ink to watercolor. He mainly draws small formats on paper. Present in many collections, such as those of the American Folk Art Museum (USA) or the LaM (France), and Centro de Arte Oliva (Portugal) he was part of the traveling exhibition Inner Worlds Outside in 2006, alongside Miro, Kandinsky, and Picabia.

Collected by Picasso, André Breton, and Jean Dubuffet, Scottie Wilson is a major artist of the 20th century. His works, born from a multiplication of finely applied lines, fascinated his contemporaries, who were eager to exhibit, sell, or even publish them at all costs.

For half a century, French mediumistic artist Henriette Zéphir devoted herself entirely to her “inner guide”, for who she never stopped creating. Her drawings have us captivated in their singular overall composition, but also in the force of their details. Somewhere between pointillism, geometric abstraction and Fauvism, her work reflects an enlightened modernism. Discovered by Jean Dubuffet, as early as 1967 she was presented at the historical art brut exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Today, her work can be seen among the greatest collections of art brut in the world.

A radiographer by profession, it was during her psychiatric hospitalization that Lindsay Caldicott began producing her collages made from a myriad of duplicated fragments, worked with a scalpel and assembled with surgical precision. Her fractal universe displays a chromatic harmony ranging from grays to sanguine tones and from golden hues to flesh colors. First presented in 2018 by the gallery, four years after the artist had passed away, her work—immediately praised by critics—is now part of the French Photography Museum, the collections of the Fondation Francès, abcd/Bruno Decharme (France), and Amr Shaker (Switzerland), among others.