Philippe LOUISGRAND (1943) - Lot 179

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Philippe LOUISGRAND (1943) - Lot 179
Philippe LOUISGRAND (1943) The big carrier Watercolor and ink wash on envelope, signed in the frame 11x22 cm This former professor of the School of Fine Arts of Lyon and former director of Saint-Etienne, (born in Morocco), was especially distinguished by his quality of large-scale drawing, animal and naturalist... His series on the taureaumachy remains in memory, so much he made alive the expression of the animal in suffering, but dignified in front of its programmed death. Fascinated since childhood by "Dinky toys", and a great dreamer before the eternal, he naturally turned to the sky and airplanes were beautiful pretexts to paint. This "air mail" envelope sums up this passion, the cabin of the jumbo jet, brilliantly true, traces its route in the sky. It expresses all the splendour of a gesture that is both massive and light, just as Icarus dreamed... BG
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