Jean-Joseph Sanfourche

Jean-Joseph Sanfourche
Born(1929-06-25)25 June 1929
Bordeaux, France
Died13 March 2010(2010-03-13) (aged 80)
Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, France
Known forPainting, sculpture
MovementArt brut

Jean-Joseph Sanfourche (25 June 1929 – 13 March 2010), (known as Sanfourche), was a French painter and sculptor associated with art brut.[1] He was a friend of the artist Jean Dubuffet, and with Gaston Chaissac; he had a long correspondence with both artists.[1]

Biography

Early years

Sanfourche spent his early years in Rochefort, where his father, Arthur Sanfourche, taught him the basics of drawing and painting.[1] His father, a mechanic in the French Navy and later the French Air Force, suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and was discharged from military service in 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, but subsequently worked at the Limoges air base.[2]

Sanfourche and his family were arrested by the Gestapo, probably in 1942. His father, a member of the French Resistance, died on an uncertain date, either shot in 1943 or from illness while in detention in 1945.[2] Sanfourche and his mother were released and returned to Limoges. Placed under guardianship, he subsequently studied accounting.[2]

Artistic career

After the war, Sanfourche entered the École nationale professionnelle in Limoges, where he trained in wood sculpture and industrial drawing.[1] He went to Auvers-sur-Oise, following in the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh, and to the area around the clinic in Ivry-sur-Seine where Antonin Artaud was confined.[3]

After spending about twenty years in Paris,[4] he returned to the Limousin and settled in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat in 1975, where he remained until his death.[1]

He maintained an illustrated correspondence with Jean Dubuffet for almost eighteen years.[4] He also met the painter Gaston Chaissac and Gaëtan Picon, who in 1958 was director of Arts and Letters under André Malraux, then minister of culture.[1]

Sanfourche died on 13 March 2010 at the hospital in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat.[1] Some of his works were acquired by the singer Tina Turner in 1994.[5]

Works

  • Hommage au Facteur Cheval, painting, 50 × 65 cm, 2004.[6]

Selected exhibitions

  • 2010: Sanfourche, œuvres d'une vie, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Gaillac.[7]
  • 2019: De vous à moi, Galerie Vincent Pécaud, Limoges.[8]

Collections

Sanfourche's works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum de l'Art Brut, Lausanne;[9] and the Musée d’art naïf du Musée du Vieux-Château, Laval, among other institutions.[10]

Further reading

  • Thuillier, Jean-Luc (2012). Jean-Joseph Sanfourche: de l'homme à l'œuvre (in French). Coulounieix: Thuillier. ISBN 978-2-9534265-6-4.
  • Thuillier, Jean-Luc (2016). Jean-Joseph Sanfourche: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint (in French). Coulounieix: Thuillier. ISBN 978-2-7466936-7-8.
  • Danchin, Laurent; Pauzié, Alain; Souchaud, Pierre; Sendrey, Gérard. Le cas Sanfourche. Bègles, 1994. (in French)
  • Dubuffet, Jean. XXIII lettres de Jean Dubuffet à Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, 1971-1985. PAB, 1988. (in French)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, peintre". Le Monde (in French). 27 March 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "SANFOURCHE Arthur, Jean, Joseph (provisoire)". Le Maitron des fusillés (in French). Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  3. ↑ Desjardins, Marie-Laure (19 August 2009). "Jean-Joseph Sanfourche - L'angoisse et la ferveur d'un enchanteur". ArtsHebdoMédias (in French). Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Collection de l'Art Brut - Sanfourche, Jean Joseph". Collection de l'Art Brut (in French). Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "Quand Tina Turner collectionnait les bronzes de l'artiste limousin Sanfourche - ici". France Bleu (in French). 25 May 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
  6. ↑ "Hommage au Facteur Cheval". Palais idéal du Facteur Cheval (in French). 2004.
  7. ↑ "Gaillac. Sanfourche s'installe pour l'été au musée". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 2010.
  8. ↑ Bodin, Christophe (2019). "Une toute nouvelle exposition Sanfourche à Limoges". France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine (in French).
  9. ↑ "Sanfourche, Jean Joseph". Museum de l'Art Brut, Lausanne. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Joseph Sanfourche: Homage au Facteur Cheval". Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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