Andre Brasilier – Le Bouquet Bleu

Description

Andre Brasilier, Le Bouquet Bleu is an original colored lithograph. Andre Brasilier, Le Bouquet Bleu is signed in the lower right margin and contains the edition in the lower left margin of the print.

André Brasilier is a French painter and printmaker whose work is typified by a breezy lyricism, wherein real-life subjects are transposed into dreamlike settings. Brasilier’s images portray a peaceful world, with delicate compositional and color harmonies bathed in soft, cool light.

Andre Brasilier, Le Bouquet Bleu takes significant aesthetic and philosophical inspiration from Japanese prints, with this painting featuring a woman holding a bouquet of flowers.

André Brasilier was born into an artistic family in Saumur, France. At the age of twenty, André Brasilier went to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1952 he received a grant from the Florence Blumenthal Foundation, and in the following year, when he was only 23, won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome, entitling him to study at the Académie de France in Rome. His first solo exhibition of paintings, focusing on music, was held at the Galerie Drouet in 1959. Over the years Brasilier has exhibited in numerous exhibitions all over the world including France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, the United States, Russia, The Netherlands, Korea and Hong Kong – over one hundred solo exhibitions in twenty different countries. His travels have inspired several series of paintings, as well as ceramics, mosaics, theatrical sets and book illustrations. He had his first retrospective of one hundred artworks from 1950 -1980 at the Château de Chenonceau in 1980, and a retrospective exhibition at the Musée Picasso – Château Grimaldi in Antibes, the French Riviera, in 1988.He has since been honoured with major retrospectives both at Russia’s renowned State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg in 2005 and at the Museum Haus Ludwig für Kunstausstellungen Saarlouis in Germany in 2007. Across the globe and for the last five years, we’ve been the witnesses to a revival in the appreciation of Brasilier’s work.

Andre Brasilier, Le Bouquet Bleu