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- Lot 159
Jean FUSARO (1925) Venice. 1966. Oil on cardboard, signed lower right. 16x27 cm Provenance: acquired in 1966 at the Galerie Saint Georges by the father of the present owner. Private collection, Paris. Jean Fusaro's landscape painting is rich in spontaneous touches, torn waves, sometimes green and sometimes red tones, depending on the mood of the colorist. With the exception of 1990-2010, when he was commissioned to paint the church of Saint-Jacques-des-Arrêts (69), which imposed on the major painter, characters from the Gospel, he has always served the incessant whirlwind of emotions in port scenes, which reminded him of his native Marseille and Sète, where he loved to reside at Mont Saint-Clair. A tireless traveller, here he is in an ancient painting, in Venice, which he has sublimated many times. At the time when the lagoon was practicable, with its incredible waves breaking on the seawall, letting whirlpools pour out their wild reflections of light, playing to the edge of the canals, drunk with the rolling of the gondolas... BG
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