Hommage à Courbet (1962) Painting by Jon Von

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  • Original Artwork Painting, Oil on Canvas
  • Dimensions Height 14.6in, Width 28.4in
  • Categories Paintings under $5,000 Abstract
Cette œuvre fait partie d'un petit ensemble (toiles et dessins) consacré par Vimenet à un hommage à Courbet. L'hommage ici est plus précisément rendu à la toile de Gustave Courbet connue sous le nom du "Sommeil" ou des "Deux amies". À l'époque de la réalisation de la toile de Vimenet, l'œuvre de Courbet est peu[...]
Cette œuvre fait partie d'un petit ensemble (toiles et dessins) consacré par Vimenet à un hommage à Courbet. L'hommage ici est plus précisément rendu à la toile de Gustave Courbet connue sous le nom du "Sommeil" ou des "Deux amies". À l'époque de la réalisation de la toile de Vimenet, l'œuvre de Courbet est peu connue et a été très rarement exposée. Vimenet engage un dialogue silencieux et plastique, par-delà l'abîme temporel, où l'on décèle sa volonté de poursuivre l'interpellation sociétale introduite par Courbet, brisant le tabou de la nudité féminine et questionnant nos regards. Si le premier tabou est tombé (ou presque), la question du regard demeure que l'œuvre de Vimenet rappelle. Vimenet tenait énormément à cette toile dont il défendait à l'occasion sa volonté de ne retenir que "l'essentiel" de l'apport de Courbet, qui justifiait à ses yeux son choix chromatique radical.

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Student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Tours (1st Prix Conté des Beaux-Arts de France) then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1931 to 1934. Under the protection of Édouard Vuillard from 1934 to 1939,[...]

Student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Tours (1st Prix Conté des Beaux-Arts de France) then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1931 to 1934. Under the protection of Édouard Vuillard from 1934 to 1939, for whom he carried out the transfer to tiles of the fresco commissioned from the master by the League of Nations in 1938, "Peace protecting the Muses". Trip to the United States in 1947-1948. Abd-el-Tif Prize for painting (1952-1954) which led to a two-year stay in Algeria (a catalogue raisonné on this period, published at the end of 2014, lists more than 300 works). Close to the sculptor Jean Carton, he also frequented Chaïm Soutine or Fernand Léger and became friends with the Parisian bohemian movement (Prévert brothers, Django Reinhardt, Henri Crolla, Maurice Baquet, Alexandre Trauner, Paul Grimault). Human demands and artistic intransigence were the two principles that guided him in his development, of which the Algerian period confirmed his independent nature. This asserted itself in the most productive period (1952-1985), when research into light and movement took precedence, making him alternate between figurative and abstract approaches. He exhibited with well-known artists (from Picasso to Lapoujade or Lapicque). The compositions diffract or reorder themselves according to a mysterious abscissa, generating warm chromatic tones, as the poet Maurice Fombeure noted. The subjects retain, through their intimacy, the trace of the Nabis heritage. Retired in Touraine in 1981, his work tends to evolve towards a certain art brut (pebbles, stones, shells, wood, altered or modified bones). Pictorial, graphic, free sculptural work, it renews the classical codes. It appears in several museums (Centre Georges-Pompidou, Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers, Museum of Fine Arts of Tours, Museum of Art and History of Narbonne, Museum of Royan, Museum of Comics of Angoulême).

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