museum archives which holds exceptional documents legitimating the existence of this art among the first steps of all autonomous creations of the 20th century. Parallel with his interest in naïve painting, Anatole Jakovsky developed an interest in Gaston Chaissac of whom he wrote the first biography; Alphonse Allais, whom he discovered; the history of tobacco, the collections of pipes which it compared with Marcel Duchamp; old robots; old postcards; the history of the Eiffel Tower; the Palate of the Factor Horse and the Rocks of Rotheneuf; art populaire... Atole Jakovsky was a man in constant quest of discovery. He knew how to anticipate the taste of his contemporaries. He foresaw man on the moon and predicted World War II war as early as 1935. His eclecticism, his perspicacity, his pugnacity and stubbornness allowed us all to discover a whole new art culture. References External links Musée International d'Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky Biography at daprix.com 1909 births 1988 deaths French art critics French people of Polish descent French people of Romanian descent