ArtistQuilici, Jean Claude

Artist Years1941-living

Artist NationalityFrench

TitleBarques sur la Plage, Alvor

Yearca. 1960

MediumDrawing > Watercolor

DimensionsComposition: 10 X 13 inches

Accession NumberRC1326

NotesJean-Claude Quilici, born in Marseille in 1941, is a French painter, of Corsican parents.

Very young, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts, and after an approach to the great masters of Provençal painting, he exhibited his first paintings in his city from 1958. Between 1960 and 1970, he received numerous Painting Awards, which crowned his beginnings as a young painter, and during this period, exhibitions of his works were organized in multiple galleries in France. From 1971, the United States welcomed him with exhibitions in Washington, New York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Albuquerque. In 1980 Jean Claude Quilici began his career in Japan: from Tokyo to Osaka via Kōbe, Shizuoka, Fukuoka, Nagano, Sapporo. All these cities organized exhibitions for him and gave him a warm welcome.

For 30 years, his lithographic works and paintings have been permanently present in Japan. Jean Claude Quilici has not neglected France. His work is regularly exhibited in the most important galleries in Marseille, Toulon, Ajaccio, Lyon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Nancy, Cannes, Saint-Tropez. The artist also pursues a career abroad: United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, etc. He was also invited to create various works during his career such as monumental frescoes for the University of Corté (Corsica) 40 m long by 4 m high and for the metro of the City of Marseille. A wall decoration on enameled sheet metal 130 m long.
(source: wikipedia.org)

In 1997, the artist created the sets for Gounod's opera Mireille for a co-production of the Marseille opera and the Bordeaux opera.