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Robert TATIN (1902-1983) Brazilian landscape, 1954 Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 38 x 55 cm Born in Laval in 1902, he trained himself from childhood, working as closely as possible with materials. He was successively a color grinder, decorator, draftsman, ceramist and painter. An inexhaustible thinker and storyteller, but also a globe-trotter at heart, he traveled the world to discover other cultures and civilizations, visiting Switzerland, Belgium, Italy and pre-war New York. In the years 1945-1950, he played an active role in the Parisian cultural revival, setting up a ceramics studio and actively attending the free painting academies, the beaux-arts and, above all, the many artists of the period: Cocteau, Giacometti, Aristide Caillaud, André Breton, Benjamin Perret, Jacques Prévert and the painter Dubuffet. It was his proximity, for a time, to Dubuffet that led to Robert TATIN's work being wrongly classified as art brut. In 1950, in search of inspiration and a new lease of life, he left for Brazil with 3 other young artists for 5 years. In 1951, he won first prize in sculpture and ceramics at the first Sao Paulo Biennial. From 1954 onwards, he took up his pilgrim's staff again, touring a large part of Brazil from north to south, as well as other South American countries: Londrina, Curtiba, Joinville, Florianopolis, Lages, Porto Alègre, Rio-Grande. The picture presented here was probably painted during his 2-month stay in Porto Alègre, a city situated between the Rio Guaiba and its many islands. The lush vegetation, the material effect and the rich, deep colors, notably the three colors present in all the artist's paintings, black and white and red. The green in this painting is reminiscent of the powerful green of iron oxides when the young Tatin was grinding colors as a child. On his return from Brazil, the artist devoted himself exclusively to painting (1st prize from the critics in 1961), and to sculpture with the creation of a museum in Mayenne that bears his name, and with his new wife Elisabeth. This year, the museum was listed as a historic monument. Frédéric Henriot, June 2024.

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