French Spiritualist artist Augustin Lesage (1876-1954)

Very interesting article. There was a whole group of Artists painting in the Art Brut style who called themselves painting mediums

http://emilypothast.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/augustin-lesage-french-1876-1954/

This one interested me more this is where most of that information came from. Thank God for the wayback Machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20081201134102fw_/http://www.rawvision.com/abcd/lesage.html

Art Brut are self taught artists their is strong linkage to both Spirit influence but a quick glance backwards shows linkage to psychiatry. If on this page you follow back to the index you will find many other artists who were quite brilliant

There is also this book about him.
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL18268923M/Augustin-Lesage

Or go her to this book my French is weak but what I can read suggests this is a powerful book and the paintings towards the end are brilliant. Just become a member log in and you can borrow it and look through it...better still if your French is good.The video is in French but interesting

https://archive.org/details/reincarnationetp0000vict/page/14/mode/2up



The artist himself


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Very interesting, Jim.