“Art brut” (“outsider art”), announces the posters for the exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, featuring part of the donation made by collector Bruno Decharme to the Centre Pompidou, which received 947 works from 222 women and men artists spanning the 17th to the 21st centuries in 2021. Since the National Museum of Modern Art had never previously shown interest in this subject, the arrival of this collection was a stroke of luck. It is likely as a gesture of gratitude for this donation that the Centre Pompidou entrusted the curation of the exhibition to the collector and his wife, Barbara Safarova, who are prominently featured in short films throughout the exhibition route.
As significant as the donation is in terms of numbers, it represents only a fraction of all that Decharme acquired over four decades. In 2021, he estimated his collection at between 5,000 and 6,000 pieces. The private abcd collection – the initial name its founder gave it – therefore has substantial reserves, which can be drawn upon as desired.
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