11 artworks by Bernard Marie Collet (Selection)
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Familiar with the peaceful vegetation of the landscapes of Ile-de-France, moved by the more austere[...]
Familiar with the peaceful vegetation of the landscapes of Ile-de-France, moved by the more austere vegetation of the Breton moors, in love with the dry and perfumed garrigues of the Mediterranean, I was overwhelmed during a stay in the West Indies by the exuberance, the luxuriance of the tropical flora. The abundance, the superimpositions, the unknown shapes of the leaves, the extreme colors and the variety of the design of the exotic flowers which, like multicolored birds, delight the green of the palms.
I went for long walks in the hot and humid thickness of these still primitive forests, on the thick sides of the volcano, under the canopy of the vast banana plantations where the sun plays between the giant palms. I drew at the foot of the immense trees with the trunks of cathedral buttresses, the wet foliage, the deep mosses, the bright flowers or the monstrous fruits... everything became a challenge. Back in the studio, I took up the forms and colors of this powerful nature like the vocabulary of a new language to organize the surface of the canvas in an almost abstract form: obliques of the slope of the palms, more or less tight latticework of branches and roots, sinuosity of lianas, colored growths of flowers or fruits here and there, and often, the blue of the sky or the water and the yellow of the sun
These are my "Tropics".
I went for long walks in the hot and humid thickness of these still primitive forests, on the thick sides of the volcano, under the canopy of the vast banana plantations where the sun plays between the giant palms. I drew at the foot of the immense trees with the trunks of cathedral buttresses, the wet foliage, the deep mosses, the bright flowers or the monstrous fruits... everything became a challenge. Back in the studio, I took up the forms and colors of this powerful nature like the vocabulary of a new language to organize the surface of the canvas in an almost abstract form: obliques of the slope of the palms, more or less tight latticework of branches and roots, sinuosity of lianas, colored growths of flowers or fruits here and there, and often, the blue of the sky or the water and the yellow of the sun
These are my "Tropics".
"Feuille plume T110222"
$665.94
"Garance"
Pastel on Paper | 19.7x19.7 in
$884.28
"Tropical elegance (Élégance tropicale)"
Pastel on Paper | 10.2x10.2 in
$684.5
"T180114 - Autour des palmes rouges2018"
Pastel on Paper | 15.8x11.8 in
$560.05
"Full sunlight"
Pastel on Paper | 19.7x19.7 in
$884.28
"Slightly (légèrement)"
Pastel on Paper | 11.8x11.8 in
Not For Sale
"feuilles mousses -"
Pastel on Cardboard | 10.6x10.6 in
$709.61
"a little bit of blue"
Pastel on Paper | 19.7x19.7 in
Sold
"In the depths of red (Au creux du rouge)"
Pastel on Paper | 19.7x19.7 in
$993.45
"Tropiques, ciel blanc - Tropics, white sky"
Pastel on Paper | 19.7x19.7 in
$890.83
"Aquatic"
Pastel on Paper | 19.7x19.7 in
$884.28
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