Modigliani, Picasso, and Art Brut Converge in Padua Exhibition

Palazzo Zabarella in Padua presents 65 works by 30 artists from the Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut (LaM), uniting modernist masterpieces with Art Brut. The exhibition traces the collecting history of Roger Dutilleul, an industrialist who acquired Cubist works by Picasso, Braque, Léger, and others, including six paintings by Modigliani such as "Maternità" (portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne and daughter). The LaM's collection also incorporates the 3,500-piece Art Brut donation from the association L'Arancine (1999), featuring outsider artists like Augustin Lesage (a miner who turned to painting after hearing a voice in 1912), André Bauchant, Louis Vivin, Séraphine de Senlis, Camille Bombois, Fleury Joseph Crépin, Antoine Rabany ("Lo Zuavo"), Miguel Hernández (a concentration camp survivor), and Slavo Kopač (Dubuffet's assistant who painted with his left hand). The exhibition concludes with works from Jean Masurel's collection, including Bernard Buffet, and a Calder mobile (c. 1955). This is the first time the Fondazione Bano, which operates Palazzo Zabarella, has focused on Art Brut.