Movement Free Figuration
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La Nature, l'Homme et le Chaos
Kej
Painting - 128 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 50.4 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,484
Flower of Sorrow
Nina Narimanishvili
Painting - 180 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
£8,575 £7,289
Femme dorée sur drap bleus 2021 2054
Aldema Design & Art
Sculpture - 55 x 32 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 12.6 x 7.9 inch
£2,680
Les favelas électriques
Robert Combas
Sculpture - 37 x 60 x 40 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 23.6 x 15.7 inch
Price upon request
Sans titre
Robert Combas
Painting - 168 x 125 x 5 cm Painting - 66.1 x 49.2 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Dragon et fumeur d’un truc que les moyens orientaux disent que ça fait rêver et des fois degueuler !
Robert Combas
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
Portrait souligné de mascara sur les yeux
Robert Combas
Painting - 138 x 96.5 x 3 cm Painting - 54.3 x 38 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Georges Coulong
Robert Combas
Painting - 146 x 104 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 40.9 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Immémoriales cicatrices des sources d'une vie (bien ou mal) remplie ? Telle est la question (avec Ladislas Kijno)
Robert Combas
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
La baigneuse
Robert Combas
Painting - 162 x 130 x 10 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 3.9 inch
Price upon request
La Rousse ou Mme Barjavel
Robert Combas
Painting - 200 x 116 x 1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 45.7 x 0.4 inch
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Personnage 1982
Robert Combas
Painting - 140 x 116 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 45.7 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Gonflant a coque
Robert Combas
Painting - 114 x 152 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 59.8 x 1.2 inch
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Black Sheep 202404
Eulogia Merle
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 35 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13.8 inch
£347
She Lay in a Meadow 2/2
Nina Narimanishvili
Painting - 19 x 25 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.5 x 9.8 x 0 inch
£983
She Lay in a Meadow 1/2
Nina Narimanishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 9.8 x 0 inch
£983
Exhibition 2/2
Nina Narimanishvili
Painting - 55 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£1,251
Country Man
Nina Narimanishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 11 x 0 inch
£330
Les Yeux Fermés Barbu de Frais et en Collier
Robert Combas
Painting - 46 x 30 cm Painting - 18.1 x 11.8 inch
Sold
Bain dans l'étang de thau
Robert Combas
Print - 57 x 38.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 22.4 x 15.2 x 0.1 inch
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Un type avec unique espèce de chevot à trot "lent rapide", sponsorisé par les tomates pelés, les tomates du célèbre footballeur brésilien
Robert Combas
Print - 53 x 70 cm Print - 20.9 x 27.6 inch
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Vision de guerre ! Avec destruction de la maison mère ! Avec avion pour destruction de Vies sur terre !
Robert Combas
Print - 50 x 40 x 0.05 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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Georges Brassens Complètement Déconnecté
Robert Combas
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
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Les jambes en fanfare, les jambes du Corso, y'a plein de jambes de fête à Sète
Robert Combas
Print - 65 x 50 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
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Vingt huit ans et presque trois mois
Robert Combas
Painting - 250 x 200 cm Painting - 98.4 x 78.7 inch
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Tête verte aux fleurs
Robert Combas
Painting - 72 x 85.5 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 33.7 x 0.8 inch
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Movement Free Figuration
Across several countries in the 1980s, artists began moving away from abstraction and offering instead figurative and colourful paintings; Neo-expressionism in Germany, Trans-avant-garde in Italy, Bad Painting in the United States and Figuration Libre in France. Artists of Figuration Libre (Free Figuration) took the “freedom" to represent all forms of art without the barriers of origin or the hierarchy of “high" and “low" cultural value. Works belonging to Free Figuration were suitable for both applied, fine, cultivated, Western and non-Western art.
Free Figuration received a lot of media coverage in the 1980s, and was built around prominent figures such as Robert Combas, Hervé Di Rosa, Richard Di Rosa, Rémi Blanchard, François Boisrond, Louis Jammes, Pascal Le Gras and Catherine Viollet. Between 1982 and 1985, these artists exhibited several times in New York, London and Paris. They showed their works alongside their American counterparts: Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, Tseng Kwong Chi, Crash, Ronan Munuera and Psek. In 1985, Free Figuration was represented at the Biennale de Paris.
This new generation of artists was driven by both an enthusiasm and a nonchalance that juxtaposed the severity of 1970s Conceptual art, Arte povera and Minimal art. However, unlike the Italian Trans-avant-gardists and the German neo-expressionists, the Free Figuration artists did not take refuge in nostalgia. They instead indulged in current events, utilising comics, science fiction, suburban culture and children's drawings to influence their work. This inspiration can be clearly felt in Robert Combas' works, who explored monsters, rock music and robots in his paintings, whilst Hervé de Rosa was guided by African aesthetic and culture.
Robert Combas: French painter and sculptor who can be considered as the father of Free Figuration. His own works are usually completed on large, unstretched canvases and frequently explore the human figure and themes of war, crime and sex.
Hervé Di Rosa: French painter, sculptor, animator and key figure in the Free Figuration movement, his works are often impetuous and amusing, and are greatly inspired by comics and graffiti.
Richard Di Rosa: French sculptor and brother of Hervé di Rosa, Richard di Rosa was inspired mostly by comics, rock music and graffiti. He was additionally the only member of the Free Figuration movement to practise sculpture.
Catherine Viollet: French painter, Catherine Viollet, participated in the "Finir en beauté" exhibition with Robert Combas, Di Rosa, Jean-Charles Blais, Rémi Blanchard and François Boisrond.
Rémi Blanchard: first artist of the Free Figuration movement to exhibit at the Yvon Lambert Gallery in 1982. He also participated in the New York exhibition, "Statements New York 82" with Robert Combas and François Boisrond.
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