Additional information
| Artist | Brasilier |
|---|---|
| Nationality | French |
| Category | European |
ArtistBrasilier, Andre
Artist Years1929-living
Artist NationalityFrench
TitleEn souvenir a un merveilleux tejour (In memory of a wonderful day)
Year1982
MediumDrawing > Watercolor
DimensionsComposition: 10.5 X 24 inches
Description
Watercolors on wove paper, signed and dated 12 Octobre 2006, inscribed with title, location not identified.
Accession NumberRC2073
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)