Jacques TRUPHEMUS (1922-2017) - Lot 233

Lot n° 233
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Jacques TRUPHEMUS (1922-2017) - Lot 233
Jacques TRUPHEMUS (1922-2017) "Calèche". 1956 Oil on panel, signed and dated lower right. Countersigned, dated and titled on the back, 14x26.5 cm. (framed, American box) Provenance: Private collection, Muriel and Florent Cottavoz. Truphémus's paintings are rare, especially from the 1950s, when the painter of diaphanous light (in his heyday) still referred to Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). His cursive and rapid touch kept only the essential of the proposed scene... Here everything is said about the rough arch of the horses, the power of the carriage, in two or three light, scratched colours, thrown onto the canvas... Truphémus was then noticed by Marius Mermillon, the art critic who founded the Salon du Sud-Est with the Ziniars group (around 1920), then he was one of the pillars of the gallery supported by Denise Mermillon, in Saint-Georges, the well-known den in the Old Lyon. This was the time of his friendship with the writer Louis Calaferte, well before Truphémus entered the pantheon of his reputation with the only exhibition -in his lifetime- at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (1985), and then came the grandiose hours of the Claude Bernard Gallery in Paris. There, Truphémus joined Francis Bacon, Balthus and Pierre Bonnard, the entire history of art summed up, in the firmament of celebrity... BG
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