Up the slope, in the outbuildings of the 18th-century Château de Beaulieu is one of the definitive collections of Art Brut.
Most of these works were gathered by Jean Dubuffet, founder of the movement.
The pieces come from all sorts of backgrounds: There are children’s drawings, pieces of folk art and paintings by patients in psychiatric hospitals, but one uniting characteristic is that all the artists exhibited here were on the margins of the art world.
