Jean-Joseph Sanfourche

Jean-Joseph Sanfourche (June 25, 1929, Bordeaux – March 13, 2010, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat) was a French artist and sculptor.

Name of Spanish origin is called Forqué or San Forqué d'or my cousins are Verónica Forqué, (1955-), Spanish actress then José María Forqué (1923-1995), director and screenwriter, The painter Jean-Joseph Sanfourche St Léonard de Noblat where he lived since 1975. He was a prominent figure in art brut. he was a friend of Gaston Chaissac, Jean Dubuffet, Robert Doisneau,. Jean Joseph Sanfourche is now celebrated worldwide, the United States to Japan via Switzerland or Italy.

Born June 25, 1929, in Bordeaux, he lived his early years in Rochefort (Charente-Maritime), his father was a mechanic for Maryse Bastié, where his father, Arthur, taught him the basics of drawing and painting. This father-resistant, was shot by the Germans. The family then leaves to take refuge in Limoges, where the young boy learns wood sculpture and industrial design to professional National School.

Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, begins to paint, despite an eye disease that cripples the irreversible, but he did make an important meeting at Ivry-sur-Seine hospital, that of the writer Antonin Artaud.

His professional activities (accounting, business executive), the lead in Brive in Alger to Paris. In Périgord, Belvès he lives after Bourdeilles.After spending twenty years in Paris, where he spent several years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for investing in African stock in French universities; he settled a decade in Solignac, then in 1975 in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat.

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