The Crécy gallery presents a set of around forty recent paintings by André Boubounelle. On this occasion we invite you to discover or rediscover an abundant, coherent, strong work, representative of French figuration and landscape design.
Contemporary painter, André Boubounelle paints landscapes in the classical manner, at a time when practices often put aside the pictorial and the figurative.
Whether luminous or misty, his landscapes are never animated and exude a delicate poetry, a harmonious melancholy. This gives a rare emotional intensity to his paintings: as if in immersion, we walk through familiar landscapes of Burgundy, Ile de France, the sunny countryside under the snow, Vexin, northern Brittany via Tuscany.
Born in 1962, in Celle-Saint-Cloud,
Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1983.
Casa de Velázquez Prize, Institut de France, resident from 1991 to 1993.
Wildenstein Foundation Prize in 1993,
The departmental estate of Vallée-aux-Loup, La Maison de Chateaubriand in Chatenay-Malabry dedicated a major exhibition to him in 2019, under the aegis of Marc Fumaroli (1932-2020), of the French Academy
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