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Bar, Julie

1868-1930, Suisse

Julie Bar. suffers from epilepsy and has a mental disability. Never attending school, she is placed in a clinic at a very early age. Her surviving drawings date from 1916 to 1930, the period when she was transferred to the private clinic of Bel-AirJulie Bar. Draws chiefly in lead pencil, and sometimes with coloring pencils, in sketchbooks she fills entirely. Her works are organized according to a principle of reiteration: alone or in groups, the subjects ( motifs, figures, animals ) are repeated in identical fashion.

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