A Painting Chimpanzee Posed As A Modern Artist Named Pierre Brassau

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

This month in 1964, the talk of the art world was an exciting avant garde painter named Pierre Brassau… except that this painter was actually a chimpanzee, and Pierre Brassau was a big old hoax. Plus: the young lady in the famous Sun Maid raisin logo was inspired by an actual person. The Monkey Artist Hoax (Today I Found Out)Our history (Sun Maid)Paint the future of this podcast as a backer on Patreon

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