138 - A collection of drawings featuring approximately 30 works to discover, including:

A collection of drawings featuring approximately 30 works to discover, including: - Louis Chabaud (French, 1941–2023) - Arnaud Grappin (French, 1972–2019) - Jaber Al Mahjoub (Tunisian, 1938–2021) - Jean-Michel Chesné (French, born 1959) Various techniques. Various sizes. Provenance: the collection of Laurent Danchin (1946–2017), writer, essayist, and art critic, passed down through the family. Orphaned at a very young age, Jaber worked as a shepherd, then as a baker and boxer, before devoting himself to painting; he was discovered by Jean Dubuffet. His highly colorful gouaches and acrylics, featuring figures outlined in black, address social and political themes; nicknamed “the king of Beaubourg,” his work is represented at the LaM in Villeneuve-d’Ascq. Laurent Danchin wrote the catalog essay “Jaber, the Birds of Art Brut” (exhibition at La Gaude, September 16–25, 1991, organized by Valérie Jeaume and Pierre Farro), devoted a chapter to him in *Aux frontières de l’art brut* (Lelivredart, Paris, 2013, pp. 95–104), and co-directed the documentary *Jaber* (1998) with Alan Govenar. Born in Paris, Jean-Michel Chesné—a self-taught artist who had previously studied agriculture—devoted himself to art beginning in the 1980s; a visit to the Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval in 1992 definitively steered his work toward Art Brut and singular art. Based in Malakoff, he has been building “La Grotte” there since 1997—a mosaic garden-gallery in the style of Picassiette—and has been creating ink “lace drawings” since 2008, such as lot 81 in this sale. He is among the artists featured by Laurent Danchin in *Mycelium: Savant Genius, Raw Genius* (Editions de l’abbaye d’Auberive, Auberive, 2014).