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“Pierre Brassau” was Peter, a four-year-old Common Chimpanzee at Bor?s Djurpark Axelsson in Sweden who had persuaded Peter’s 17-year-old keeper to give the chimpanzee Brushes and Paint. After Peter made several paintings, Axelsen selected the best four and arranged for them to be exhibited at Gallerie Christina in Goteborg, Sweden. Pierre Brassau was a Swedish artist and chimpanzee who was the victim of a 1964 hoax perpetrated by ?ke “Dacke” Axelsson, a journalist for the Swedish tabloid G?teborgs-Tidningen. Axelsen came up with the idea of ??exhibiting a series of paintings by a non-human primate, under the pretense that they were the work of a previously unknown French artist named “Pierre Brassau”, to test whether critics could show the fluctuation.
