Fernand MICHEL (1913-1999). "Carnival". Zinc on wood panel signed upper right, titled, countersigned and dated 1988 on the back. Height 131 - Width 26 cm Provenance: Claude and Sylvette Féraud Collection. Surrealist artist, co-founder of the Fata Morgana publishing house and member of the Phase group. "Fernand Michel is the founder of the Musée d'Art brut et Singulier in Montpellier, where you can see his home and studio, as well as the works of artists he collected throughout his life, including Aloïse Corbaz, Baya, Adolf Wölfli and Augustin Lesage.

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