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Marguerite Burnat-Provins

1872-1952 (SWITZERLAND)

LIFETIME AESTHETE, ARTIST AND POET, BURNAT-PROVINS WAS A PROFESSIONALLY ARTIST WHO EXPERIENCED A SERIES OF INTENSE IMAGININGS IN EGYPT DURING AN EPISODE OF TYPHOID. FROM 1914 ONWARDS, SHE DEVOTED HERSELF TO REALISING THESE AMES PARASITAIRES IN A SINGLE BODY OF WORK CALLED MA VILLE. IT WAS COMPRISED OF 3,000 DRAWINGS OF PSYCHIC HALLUCINATIONS, WHERE SUBJECTS OFTEN DICTATED NOT ONLY THEIR COLOUR AND FORM, BUT THEIR BIOGRAPHY (WHICH WOULD APPEAR ON THE REVERSE).

MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS, MUSÉE JENISCH (VEVEY) 2020/21
MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS: COEUR SAUVAGE, MUSÉE JENISCH (VEVEY) 2020
4TH ART BRUT BIENNALE, COLLECTION D'ART BRUT (LAUSANNE) 2018
NOUVELLES ACQUISITIONS, COLLECTION D'ART BRUT (LAUSANNE) 2018
WORK HARD, SWISS INSTITUTE (NEW YORK) 2015

MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS, LA VOILE, ALBIN MICHEL, 1929
MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS, CONTES EN VINGT, Editions Des Tablettes, Saint-Raphael, 1922
MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS, HEURES D'AUTOMNE, Emile-Paul Frères, Paris, 1921
MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS, HEURES D'HIVER, Emile-Paul Frères, Paris, 1920
MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS, VOUS, SANSOT, 1919
MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS, CANTIQUE D'ÊTE, Librairie Ollendorff (Sans date)
MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS, FENÊTRE OUVERTE SUR LA VALLÉE, Librairie Ollendorff (Sans date)
MARGUERITE BURNAT-PROVINS, LE LIVRE POUR TOI, P.OLLENDORFF (sans date)