André Robillard (né en 1931) Fusée Mixed media (broom brush, coffee pot parts, keys, scotch tape, metal rods ...) signed and annotated H. 120 cm Provenance: > Private collection, Paris André Robillard grew up near Orléans. At the age of 19, he was committed to Fleury-les-Aubrais hospital for mental disorders. He was employed at the institution for a variety of tasks, which gave him ample space to create and store his works: rifles, spacecraft and planets that he had been making since 1964 from objects salvaged from the public rubbish dump.

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