Juva was the
nom de plume of a lapsed nobleman and academic, who was also an obsessive collector of curiously-shaped flint stones. The artist presented them as evidence of anthropomorphic pre-cultural making and designed each wooden stand to reveal their meaning via a specific orientation. Although
Juva did not quite fit the archetype of an uncultured
art brut artist, he remained one of the rarest and highly prized discoveries.
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