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Jean-Joseph Sanfourche

Jean-Joseph Sanfourche (1929 - 2010) was active/lived in France.  Jean Joseph Sanfourche is known for Art brut painting, drawing, woodcarving, industrial design.

Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, known simply as Sanfourche, was a French painter, poet, draughtsman and sculptor, born in Bordeaux on June 25, 1929, and died in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat on March 13, 2010. 

A practitioner of Art Brut, he was a friend of Gaston Chaissac and Jean Dubuffet, with whom he maintained a long correspondence. His father introduced him to drawing as a child, and he began painting at the age of six. In the post-war years, he enrolled at the École Nationale Professionnelle in Limoges, where he trained in woodcarving and industrial design. 

He traveled to Auvers-sur-Oise, in the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh, or to the area around the clinic where Antonin Artaud is interned in Ivry-sur-Seine. After spending some twenty years in Paris, he returned to the Limousin region to devote himself to his life as an artist, settling in Solignac for ten years, then in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat in 1975, where he remained until his death. 

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