Lithography By Yves Brayer Camargue Landscape House Contresigne 87/100 Lithograph by Yves Brayer, Camargue landscape house, countersigned, 87/100, original frame. This litho is by Yves Brayer, it bears the number 87 out of 100, probably a Camargue landscape. It is colorful as usual in Brayer. It is in good condition, in a nice original golden frame with a pass. Everything is ready to hang. Sold as presented. Yves Brayer, born November 18, 1907 in Versailles and died May 29, 1990 in Paris, is a painter, engraver, illustrator and decorator of French theater. Faithful to the tradition of figurative art, he is one of the masters of the School of Paris. Using a wide variety of techniques, he is the author of an abundant production of landscapes but also of great compositions, figures and still lifes. Most of Yves Brayer's childhood took place in Bourges where his father, polytechnic officer and rider, passed on to him the passion for horses. A stay in Provence with his mother made him discover landscapes that dazzle him and are reflected in his sketches. Impressed, his mother enrolled him at the School of Applied Arts in Bourges. While he was destined for the military career, a horse riding broke his kneecap. It was then that he turned definitively to painting. Upon his arrival in Paris in 1924, where his father, who had become a general, was assigned to the Ministry of War, he attended the academies of Montparnasse and La Grande Chaumière, then the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was appointed professor in 1926. He asserts his personality from his youth. Elders, like Jean-Louis Forain, encouraged him, and the sculptor Robert Wlérick introduced him to modeling. Still a student, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. In 1927 a state travel grant enabled him to make his Grand Tour and go to Spain where the meeting with the masters of the Prado museum in Madrid will have a decisive influence on his future work. After a stay in Morocco thanks to a prize created by Marshal Lyautey, he won the Grand Prix de Rome in painting in 1930. First he regretted Spain, then he was carried away by the richness of Italian life from the 1930s and the pleasures of life at the Villa Medici, then directed by the sculptor Paul Landowski. Upon his return to Paris in 1934, he gathered his harvest in a large exhibition at the Galerie Charpentier, faubourg Saint-Honoré, where the public discovered the authenticity of this 27-year-old painter with a powerful and original temperament. After having lived in the Panthéon district, he moved, in 1935, rue Monsieur-le-Prince, in the sixth arrondissement. Then from 1936 to 1938, he bore witness to the work preceding the Paris International Exhibition, the festivals and receptions he attended. Demobilized in Montauban in 1940, he stayed during the war in Cordes-sur-Ciel, in the Tarn, where the architectures of the Albigensian remind him of the colors of Rome. In 1942 he returned to the capital where Jacques Rouché charged him with imagining his first models of sets and costumes for a ballet at the Paris Opera. He lived there during the occupation and painted the snowy city, then the liberated city. The year 1945 marks a new stage in his work. He marries Hermione Falex (1921-2019) who becomes his model and his support. In Provence he realizes that there are other harmonies than those of architectures created by Man, those of pure and wild nature, and he is soon fascinated by the diversity of the Alpilles and their limestone folds then by the expanses of the Camargue populated by white horses and black bulls. He soon settled in Provence several months each year. At first his works disconcert the public who keep the memory of Italian architectures, then the amateurs will get used to his landscapes of Provence and Camargue which will finally make his fame. When he returned to Italy and Spain in 1948 and 1949, his vision and style would be more stripped down. In 1954, he held the Grand Prix des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 1957, he won the Grand Prix of the President of the Republic at the Menton Biennale. He was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1957, in the chair of Charles Fouqueray. The filmmaker Henri Verneuil succeeded him in 2000 and pronounced his praise under the Dome the same year. In 1978, he was guest of honor at the Salon of independent Norman artists in Rouen. He works in Mexico, Egypt, Iran, Greece, Russia, the United States and Japan. Quickly capturing the light and rhythms of a country, he brought back from his travels numerous watercolors1. He was a professor at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière for fifty years (he had, among others, a student Gabriel Dauchot), vice-president for five years of the Salon d'automne in 1981 and, in 1977, as a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, curator of the Marmottan Museum in Paris
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