Fréderic Bruly

FRÉDÉRIC BRULY (Zéprégüé, Ivory Coast, 1923 - Abidjan, Ivory Coast 2014).
Untitled, 1993.
Ballpoint pen and crayons on cardboard (x28).
Signed and dated on the back.
Provenance: Family of the artist.
Measurements: 18 x 12 cm (x28).
During the Second World War, Bruly worked as a sailor in the French Navy in the Antilles. At the end of the war he was employed on the Dakar-Niger railroad in Rufisque (Senegal). Having left the railway service in December 1945, he started as a clerk in the "judicial identity service of the "general security in West Africa", in Dakar. From there he was assigned, in 1958, to the direction of police security in Ivory Coast. The Ministry of the Civil Service assigned him to the Ministry of the Interior, to the Directorate of Political Affairs in Abidjan, and the Directorate of the French Institute of Black Africa (IFAN), upon discovering that he was the inventor of an African alphabet, asked the Ministry of the Interior to transfer him to IFAN in Abidjan in 1958. The direction of the Faculty of Letters of the National University of the Republic of Ivory Coast having approved the scientific character and the classical sense of his manuscripts of which he came into possession, asked, in its turn, for their transfer to the university: service of the institute of ethnosociology, in 1973. The origin of all the work of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré comes from a revealing experience: on March 11, 1948, "the heavens opened before my eyes and seven colored suns described a circle of beauty around .