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Spirit paintings on show in Paris
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PARIS. Works by Augustin Lesage, a former miner who claimed his paintings were produced by spirits, have gone on show in La Maison Rouge gallery’s summer exhibition in Paris. Examples of his art, including L’esprit de la pyramide, are displayed alongside those of Austrian artist Elmar Trenkwalder who was born in 1959 – four years after the death of Lesage. Lesage’s work made a lasting impression on Trenkwalder.
 A coal-miner in Ferfay in northern France, Augustin Lesage began painting at the age of 35 after hearing voices while working in the mine.
“In January 1912, powerful spirits came to me, ordering me to draw and paint which I had never done before,” he wrote in 1925. “Having never seen a tube of paint, imagine my surprise at this revelation.
“ ‘But I know nothing about painting.’
“ ‘Don't worry about such an insignificant detail,’ I was told. ‘We will work through your hand.’
“I then received, in writing, the names of the paints and brushes I would need and, guided by planetary artists, I began painting after coming home, exhausted, from the mine.”
Recognised as a medium and accepted into the Spiritist community, he gave up mining in 1923 and devoted himself to painting – often on a large scale – until his death in 1954.
Over and over, Augustin Lesage insisted that he had no control over his hand or vision when painting. He explained (extensively, when talking with parapsychologist Dr Eugene Osty in 1927) that he never knew in advance what he was going to paint and that he obeyed the spirits of his dead sister Marie, Leonardo da Vinci, Marius of Tyana, and others.
“Augustin Lesage and Elmar Trenkwalder” can be viewed at La Maison Rouge, 10 Boulevard de la Bastille, 75012 Paris, until 7 September.
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Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Category: Mediumship
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