Description: Bernard LORJOU (1908-1986)Bussiere Gallery exhibition posterdated March 68printed by Mourlot Format : 74 x 46 cmAverage condition: small tear at the top left, with lack of paper ---------- FREE DELIVERY For all information contact us tel: 06 81 01 49 19This work is visible by appointment;Galerie Montfort 5, rue de Provence 75009 PARIS Bernard Lorjou, born in Blois in 1908 and died in 1986, is a painter French. Coming out of the Second World War and during the 1950s, he was, with Bernard Buffett, Jean Carzou, Manessier and a few others, one of the most cited and best-known French painters of the time.Wishing to become a painter, he left Blois For Paris where he discovers Manet while frequenting the anarchists of the “ Libertarian »2. Shortly after, aged 17, he was an apprentice colorist at the drawing workshop. Francois Ducharne. There he became a model maker and silk designer. Later, his creations in this area dressed celebrities like the Duchess of Windsor Or Marlene Dietrich2. There he also met Yvonne Motet, his future partner, with whom he married in 1968, a few weeks before his death from leukemia.3.With the help of the critic Jean Bouret, It melts with Michael Thompson the anti-abstract movement The Man witness to his time4. The group's first exhibition took place in Paris in 1948. The same year, he shared the Critics' Prize with Buffet. The latter participated in the second exhibition of Man Witness in 1949. The third and last took place in November 1962 with only Yvonne Motet, at the Bal du Red Mill.In 1953, he met Domenica Walter-Guillaume5 who puts him in touch with the art dealer George Wildenstein, the Duchess of Windsor, Edgar Faure,Arthur Honegger and other personalities6Fierce opponent ofabstract art, Lorjou will describe it in an open letter to the President of the Republic “ imbecile, stateless, empty, degenerate art... become, by the will of your Minister of Culture, the official French ART »7. In 1960, he signed another open letter in favor of the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, then imprisoned in Mexico and who will thank him for his presence during the opening of the Assassination of Sharon Tate at the Galliera Museum, October 14, 19708. An irascible and whimsical character, in 1977 he circulated a petition in defense of French Art and against Beaubourg that he does not hesitate to put on word from Cambronne because it represents for him this official art that he particularly loathes9.With a dreamlike figurative style, he is often considered by critics as an expressionist. A self-taught artist, he defines himself as “ the black beast » museum curators10. In the movement of Salon of Young Painting of the New School of Paris, he exhibits at Salon of Painters witnesses of their time and at autumn Fair throughout his life after World War II. He spent the last years of his life Saint-Denis-sur-Loire.
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Era: Retro (1900-1979)
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