1173 - Robert Tatin, “Vence la Jolie”, town in Provence with abstracted figures, copy 13/90, 1961

Robert Tatin, “Vence la Jolie”, town in Provence with abstracted figures, copy 13/90, 1961 (1902 Laval – 1983 Cossé-le-Vivien), colour lithograph on paper, signed lower right, numbered lower left copy 13/90, signed and dated 1961 in the stone lower right, titled “Vence la Jolie” in the stone lower left, detailed depiction of the French town in Provence in a circular bird's-eye view, populated by a multitude of abstracted figures, black outlines with red, brown, yellow and grey accents, good condition commensurate with age, margins partially creased, image 55.5x72.5 cm (HxW), sheet size 57x72.5 cm (HxW) Robert Tatin was born in Laval in 1902, first trained as a decorative painter and carpenter and in 1933 was received into the Compagnons charpentiers du Devoir de Liberté in Tours. After the Second World War he took part in the cultural reconstruction in Paris alongside Jacques Prévert, André Breton and Jean Dubuffet. From 1950 he travelled through South America for around five years, continued his ceramic research in Brazil and in 1951 received the first prize of the São Paulo Biennial. In 1955 he returned to France and lived for some years on the Côte d'Azur before settling permanently in Cossé-le-Vivien in the Mayenne in 1962, where he built today's Musée Robert Tatin together with his wife Lise Tatin. The ceramicist, painter and lithographer is often associated with naive art, Surrealism and Art Brut, but always rejected belonging to any art movement.