Isabelle Laban-Dal Canto oversees a network of museums in rural departments of France, housing a variety of collections: prehistoric and Roman archaeology, painting, contemporary art, fossils, ethnological objects. As a specialist in modern art, she is also an independent researcher interested in the margins of art, including geographical, where artists choose to live in remote areas. In this context she met art dealer Lucien Henry. A native of the village in which he set up his business, he sold, frequented and loved a great many artists between the 1950s and his death in 1988. He was able to gather around him some well-known figures (Bernard Buffet, Henri Cartier-Bresson) but above all artists with original backgrounds, often self-taught, always committed to a singular creative path. Isabelle Laban-Dal Canto’s research into this atypical figure brings her to the heart of her subject: creation far from the norm.