Raised by a mentally deficient mother, René “le Bedeau” was placed in an orphanage at the age of five. Teenager, he could neither read nor write, but was diagnosed with no particular illness. At the age of twenty, he entered the Hospice of Plouescat and worked as a beadle — hence his nickname. There he began suffering from hallucinations. In 1969, he was committed to the psychiatric hospital of Quimper. It is not known exactly when René “le Bedeau” started to draw. He worked mainly in his room, using all kinds of paper. He represented objects — knives, coffins, guitars, sunglasses, televisions, cameras, scissors, fryers — in a form of signs and invented his own ideographic language.
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