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ANTOINE RABANY (formally LES BARBUS MÜLLER) 
1844-1919 (France) 

BIOGRAPHY
Les Barbus Müller refer to a group of figurative stone carvings, owned by André Breton, Tristan Tzara and Jean Dubuffet. Named after the wealthy Swiss collector who had first acquired them, these once-anonymous bearded forms were in fact the work of Antoine Rabany (aka Le Zouave), a former soldier who had displayed them in his garden-environment in the Auvergne. In their time, they were considered among the most significant of art brut finds.