Additional information
| Artist | Brasilier |
|---|---|
| Country | French |
| Region | European |
ArtistBrasilier, Andre
Artist Years1929-living
Artist NationalityFrench
TitleReflet
Year1982
MediumCeramic
DimensionsDiameter: 19.7 X 19.7 X 3 inches
Description
Terracotta charger with enameled design, 50 cm diameter, signed in the clay before firing on verso, with stamped justification and credits to “SASSI-MILICI / Vallauris”, editioned “11/100” (surface marked).
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)