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Artworks
Claude Le SauteurLe grotesque - Grotesque, 20061926-2007Oil on canvas - huile sur toile36 x 24 in
91.4 x 61 cmFurther images
Inscriptions
signed 'Le Sauteur' (recto, lower right); titled and signed 'LE GROTESQUE, C Le Sauteur ARCA' (verso, top horizontal chassis bar).Provenance
Corporate collection, Just For Laughs - Collection corporative Juste Pour Rire, Montréal.
Private Collection, Montreal.Exhibitions
4 June - 23 September 2007; Musée de Charlevoix, La Malbaie, Le monde habité de Claude Le Sauteur.Grotesque humour: Welcome to the world of excess, hyperbole and outrageousness.
This has to be the oldest and most universal type of humour. Extremely boisterous, it provides a temporary escape from social norms. Grotesque humour is the typical platform for travesty. - Gilbert Rozon, Les univers du rire, p. 12. -
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