André BRASILIER (Né en 1929)

Les roses de septembre, 1979 Oil on canvas, signed lower right, resigned with the initials on the back 97 x 130 cm A photocopy of a certificate from André Brasilier dated June 29, 1979 will be given to the buyer Born in Saumur, Touraine in 1929. André BRASILIER entered the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1949. He was awarded the Florence Prize Blumenthal in 1952 and the first Grand Prix de Rome for painting the following year and thus resided in Rome at the Villa Medici from 1954 to 1957. His life as an artist implies a perpetual geographical displacement always in contact with the omnipresent nature around each of his houses - workshops. His favorite subjects are: - The beloved and almost adored model, his wife. - The omnipresent nature and its seasonal changes. - Music - Horses These four themes are fundamental for the artist who claims Gauguin as his 'spiritual father': music, the model represented by his wife, the characters in nature and horses. Ochre, white and black mark the musical works where the musicians and their instruments are barely sketched. In many of his paintings, a female figure, always the same, stands out against landscapes, blue, green, black or glowing flat tints: Chantal, his wife, whom he describes as his 'muse', his 'permanent source of inspiration'. The horses, 'endearing creatures' by their 'life, their dynamism', roam, barely sketched, beaches, woods, or even meadows where they graze, colored in blue on the green grass. Composition: The key word in the painter's mouth for whom a painting will always stand up as soon as its composition imposes itself with force. André Brasilier continues to be nourished by the example of the masters who have accompanied him in his work since the very beginning and are at the origin of the "permanent plastic enthusiasm" which founds this aptitude for happiness to which the painter's look as well as his works testify. By transfiguring life," he explains when talking about his palette, "I would like to build a plastic work that helps to see and to dream. A painting must be shimmering to attract. A vibration which fascinates', he still says. The only painter, along with Picasso, to have benefited from a retrospective of his work on the prestigious walls of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 2005, Brasilier declared himself "very satisfied" with the presentation of his paintings in the old vermicellerie in Albi, with its very sober decor. In 2008 he created a monumental painting for the Chapel of Saint Blaise, in Pompadour. After Japan in 2009, he exhibited in Seoul, in May 2010. First painter invited to exhibit at Chenonceau, Brasilier finds the walls of the gallery of the Castle, for his Exhibitions: "Accord parfait", from June to November 2010. Sources: https://www.andrebrasilier.com/ A lithograph of the same subject measuring 45 x 60 cm has been published