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Joachim-Raphaël Boronali was a fictitious Italian painter created as an invention of writer and critic Boronali Impression.jpg, '' (Sunset Over the Adriatic)'', 54 × 81 cm, painting made by donkey (Lolo) assisted by Roland Dorgelès.
Official Tourism Office of Montmartre - Lolo the Donkey
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Joachim-Raphaël Boronali was a fictitious Italian painter created as an invention of writer and critic Roland Dorgelès
Roland Dorgelès (; 15 June 1885 – 18 March 1973) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of ...
who created paintings on canvas by tying a paintbrush to the tail of a donkey named Lolo.
A painting by the donkey, '' (Sunset Over the Adriatic)'' was exhibited at the 1910 Salon des Indépendants attributed to the 'excessivist' Genoan painter. The painting sold for 400 francs (~ $1200 in 2020 value) and was donated by Dorgelès to the ''Orphelinat des Arts''.Daniel Groinowski, ''Aux commencements du rire moderne. L'esprit fumiste'', José Corti
José Corti is a bookshop and publishing house located in Paris, France, and was founded in 1925.
It is named after its founder, José Corticchiato (14 January 1895 – 25 December 1984). José Corticchiato started his business by publishing the ...
, Paris, 1997, p.296. The painting forms part of the permanent collection at ''l'Espace culturel Paul Bédu'' (Milly-la-Forêt
Milly-la-Forêt () is a Communes of France, commune in the Essonne Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France region in northern France.
Geology
The Forest of Fontainebleau, in the western end of which Milly-la-Forêt lies, is compo ...
).
See also
*Animal-made art
Animal-made art is art created by an animal. Animal-made works of art have been created by apes, elephants, cetacea, reptiles, and bowerbirds, among other species.
Painting animals
Pigcasso the pig
Pigcasso is a South African pig that has ...
*Pierre Brassau
Pierre Brassau was a Swedish artist and chimpanzee who was 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 pain ...
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Official Tourism Office of Montmartre - Lolo the Donkey
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