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Pierre Brassau

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Pierre Brassau was a chimpanzee and the subject of a 1964 hoax perpetrated by Åke "Dacke" Axelsson, a journalist at the Swedish tabloid Göteborgs-Tidningen. Axelsson came up with the idea of exhibiting a series of paintings made by a non-human primate, under the pretense that they were the work of a previously unknown human French artist named "Pierre Brassau", in order to test whether critics could tell the difference between true avant-garde modern art and the work of a chimpanzee.^[1]

"Pierre Brassau" was in fact a four-year-old common chimpanzee named Peter from Sweden's Borås Djurpark zoo.^[2] Axelsson had persuaded Peter's 17-year-old keeper to give the chimpanzee a brush and paint. After Peter had created several paintings, Axelsson chose the best four and arranged to have them exhibited at the Gallerie Christinae in Göteborg, Sweden.^[1] While one critic observed that "only an ape could have done this", most praised the works.^[1] Rolf Anderberg of the Göteborgs-Posten wrote, "Brassau paints with powerful strokes, but also with clear determination. His brush strokes twist with furious fastidiousness. Pierre is an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer."^[1]^[3]^[4]

After the hoax was revealed, Rolf Anderberg insisted that Peter's work was "still the best painting in the exhibition". A private collector bought one of the works for US$90 ({{Inflation|fmt=eq|cursign=$|US|90|1964}}).^[1]^[3]^[4]

In 1969 Peter was transferred to the Chester Zoo in England.^[1]

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1. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{cite web |url=http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/pierre_brassau_monkey_artist/ |title=Pierre Brassau, Monkey Artist |publisher=The Museum of Hoaxes}}
2. ^{{cite journal | url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870835,00.html | title=Zoo Story | journal=Time |date=February 1964 }}
3. ^¹{{cite web|title=Avantgarde artist Pierre Brassau|url=http://ecclesiastes911.net/story/pierre_brassau.html|publisher=ecclesiastes911.net|accessdate=27 February 2016}}
4. ^¹{{cite book|last1=Lemarquis|first1=Pierre|title=Portrait du cerveau en artiste|date=2012|publisher=Odile Jacob|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-7381-7850-3|page=69|url=https://books.google.pl/books?id=aaHWFdhhHoAC&pg=PA290|language=fr}}

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Avantgarde artist Pierre Brassau

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