Additional information
| Artist | Brasilier |
|---|---|
| Nationality | French |
| Category | European |
ArtistBrasilier, Andre
Artist Years1929-living
Artist NationalityFrench
TitleCavaliers dans la Foret en Automne
Yearca.1980
MediumPainting > Oil
DimensionsComposition: 8.6 X 10.5 inches
Description
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, signed and titled on the back.
Accession NumberRC2076
NotesAndré Brasilier (born 29 October 1929 in Saumur in the department of Maine-et-Loire) is a French painter, watercolorist, lithographer and ceramist.
Seeking harmony between plastic construction and emotion, inspired by life, he defined himself as a "transfigurative" painter. According to him, painting is above all transfiguration of the real and not realism.
Biography
Family
André Brasilier was born to painters' parents. His father, Jacques Brasilier, was a symbolist painter, close to the Nabis and his mother, Alice Chaumont was a painter. Through his marriage to Chantal d'Hauterives, he was the brother-in-law of the painter Arnaud d'Hauterives.
He was the brother of Jean-Marie Brasilier (1926-2005), architect, first grand prix de Rome in architecture (1957), boarder at the villa Medici (1961).
André Brasilier enters the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1949, in the studio of Maurice Brianchon.
He resided in Rome at the villa Medici from 1954 to 1957
(source: wikipedia.org)