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Gilbert Sabatier, Limpidité, Painting on canvas
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Gilbert Sabatier, Limpidité, Painting on canvas
Gilbert Sabatier, Limpidité, Painting on canvas
Gilbert Sabatier, Limpidité, Painting on canvas

Limpidité, 1978
Gilbert Sabatier

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Painting : oil

73 x 60 x 2 cm 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

$2,925

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Hand-signed by artist

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Medium

Painting: oil

Dimensions cm • inch

73 x 60 x 2 cm 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth

Support

Painting on canvas on stretcher

Framing

Grey ornate

Artwork dimensions including frame

76 x 63 x 3 cm 29.9 x 24.8 x 1.2 inch

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Nude

Portrait

Human body

Colors

Women

Look

Sky blue

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Artwork location: France

Work from the period "Parallel worlds" (1978-1982)

As I approach my forty years (I was born in 1941), a first assessment is necessary for me. Should I continue with a surrealist inspiration by continually modifying reality? Or should I return to interpretations closer to nature?

In addition, I found myself confronted with another observation: the concerns of artists of my generation would be different from mine. I am interested in their research and achievements, which we call Contemporary Art. However, they did not seduce me to the point of breaking with my own imagination.

If man needed benchmarks to give direction to his life, I had personally, and for a long time, been impressed by three thoughts, respectively from Nietzche, Goethe and Aristotle. We have art so as not to die from the truth. Art allows the accomplishment of everything that, in reality, life denies to man. And art is the joy of free men. So I wasn't afraid of being criticized by moving physical reality into parallel universes. I was not running away from it but shifting it by giving it other contours, or limbos, dotted with dreamlike symbols.

Always at ease in my esoteric research, I exploited dreams so that they release creative energy in my characters and have a deep resonance with the viewer. Giving shape to these buried reminiscences would encourage, as a painter, to become actor, stage and audience simultaneously.

Embracing my century and its content, I nevertheless felt free to sidestep everyday life in its biases. Building other projections was like crossing the Rubicon towards the forbidden and the secrets of the Great Architect.

In order to highlight these parallel worlds, I exploited the elements of nature. I redrew them in assemblages that were often distorted or made difficult to identify. Vertical or horizontal architectures frequently made up my funds. Moving volumes, full of life, animated my paintings. They released a mineral universe which clumped together, exploded and restructured itself with the intention of translating the phobia of men. Through the breathing of their songs, my characters projected themselves into other pathological utopias. Antidotes to the mediocrity of their condition, their dreams became sources of prolongation of their existences by moving their desires towards new horizons. Capable of mimicry, these beings were no longer main subjects but integral parts of nature. They could become stone, tree or animal. Having reached a balance with men, nature imbued itself with their language and echoed their presence.

Naturally skeptical but capable of enthusiasm, I had projected our human condition into parallel lives where everyone could have expected better worlds. However, while, through their traumatic dreams, my characters projected themselves into other realities, the result turned out to be bitter. Their attempts at freedom ended in failure. In designing an Arcadia of plenitude, they only encountered cold and inhuman spaces, like dead ends. Refusing, like Icarus, to comply with the established order, they had crossed levels from which they could not return. Far from the light, they were lost in wandering lands. They wanted to be but found only emptiness in their lives.

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Gilbert Sabatier is a painter, engraver, sculptor. A creator since 1960, he is the author of 20 periods ranging from figurative to contemporary research. His entire work represents two thousand paintings, 800 sculptures and 250 engravings.
His work is a hypnotizing and protean universe that questions the art of our time in all its forms, colors and movements. Explorer of the impossible, alchemist of matter and adventurer of art, Sabatier has never ceased to create in complete freedom paintings, engravings, serigraphs and sculptures sometimes monumental, sometimes light.
From his early figurative works to his research on weightlessness and suspended time, from his paintings between dreams and reality to his quest for abstraction, from his fascination with the laws of the universe to the invention of a new genre, a synthesis of all his obsessions, the artist reveals himself like never before.
Throughout his life, he tried to artistically express the aspirations and doubts of human beings facing an undeciphered universe. Those who discover his work will immerse themselves in the heart and mind of a resolutely free artist.

GILBERT SABATIER

PAINTER • ENGRAVER • SCULPTOR

ARTIST PRESENTATION

© NRCO

Born in 1941 in Haiphong (Vietnam), and a painter since 1960, Gilbert Sabatier is the author of 2000 paintings, 800 sculptures, 250 engravings, illustrations – works present in various personal, group, national and international exhibitions. He is the creator of 19 periods ranging from classical to contemporary research.
His largest painting is 60 m² and his largest sculpture is 18 metres long. As for his first important work, The Last Supper, exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris in 1963, it was acquired by the church of Vineuil (Loir et Cher).
He lives and works in Orléans and in Loir et Cher.

DISTINCTIONS
  • 1996 • ACADEMICIAN, MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY DEL VERBANO, ITALY.
  • 1992 • SILVER-GLASS MEDAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS AND LETTERS.
  • 1985 • GOLD MEDAL AT THE GRAND PRIX DES ARTISTES DE FRANCE & LIVING ART PRESS PRIZE & MORDELLES SURREALIST EXHIBITION PRIZE (ILLE ET VILAINE).
  • 1982 • RUBENS GRAND PRIZE FOR PAINTING, PARIS & GRAND HUMANITARIAN PRIZE OF FRANCE, PARIS.
  • 1973 • BELGO-HISPANIC KNIGHT OF MERIT & BELGO-HISPANIC PRIZE, BRUSSELS.
  • 1971 • NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL PRIZE.
  • 1968 • RENNES ACADEMY RECTOR'S PRIZE.
  • 1964 • PARIS ENGRAVING PRIZE.


RECENT EXHIBITIONS

(Personal Exhibition = EP)

  • 2023 • RETROSPECTIVE 60 years of creation organized by the city of Orléans (45) Paintings, engravings, sculptures
  • 2019 • EP AUBERGE DE CHITENAY (41). HOTELS MERCURE & NOVOTEL ORLEANS LA SOURCE (45)
  • 2018 • EP LAURENTIA ROOM ORLEANS (45). ANTIQUE FAIR ORLEANS (45)
  • 2017 • EP HOTEL MERCURE ORLEANS (45). EP THE CHANCELLORY. ORLEANS (45)
  • 2016 • EP BLOIS DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL (41). EP CHAILLES TOWN HALL (41) EP SAUMUR CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER. (49) EP LAURENTIA ROOM. ORLEANS (45)
  • 2015 • EP HOTEL LE MONOARQUE BLOIS. EP IN MOLINEUF. (41) EXHIBITION IN INGRE. (45) EXHIBITION AT THE ANTIQUE FAIR ORLEANS (45)
  • 2014 • EP GENERAL COUNCIL OF LOIR ET CHER BLOIS. EP HOUSE OF IRÈNE MARDIÉ (LOIRET)
  • 2013 • EP UNIVERSITY OF ORLEANS (POLYTECH SCHOOL) - EP BLOIS (THE VAULTS OF PUITS-CHATEL)
  • 2012 • INGRÉ (LOIRET), ORLEANS ARTISTS (ORLEANS)
  • 2011 • EP SOCIETE GÉNÉRALE IN ORLEANS, GILBERT SABATIER RETROSPECTIVE 1960-2011 COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST PIERRE LE PUELLIER, ORLEANS.
  • 2006 • EXHIBITION IN TOURS
  • 2004 • EP IN ORLEANS: GILBERT SABATIER “AN ARTIST IN THE CITY", 120 PLACES IN THE CITY AND AT THE MUSEUM.
  • 2003 • SCULPTURE ENTITLED 1789 AMONG 50 ARTIST SCULPTORS AT CAMPO SANTO IN ORLEANS - GUEST OF HONOR AT THE CHÂTEAU DE SAINT JEAN LE BLANC (LOIRET), PRESENTATION OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES.
  • 2002 • EP AT GODF, PARIS - EP AT THE TOWN HALL OF CHÂTEAUROUX (INDRE) - EP IN BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER): TOWN HALL, HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY RESTAURANT, COLLEGE, NURSERY SCHOOLS, 32 MERCHANTS - EP SAINT JEAN DE LA RUELLE (LOIRET), ARTIS, AT THE HOUSE OF MUSIC AND DANCE.
  • 2001 • EP AT THE CHATEAU DE L'ETANG IN SARAN (LOIRET) - EP AT THE MANOIR DU FAY IN CHITENAY (LOIR ET CHER).
  • 1999 • EP IN MONTPELLIER (HÉRAULT) - EP IN LA FERTÉ SAINT AUBIN (LOIRET).
  • 1998 • RETROSPECTIVE “1960-1997: 37 YEARS OF CREATION" AT THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF SAINT PIERRE LE PUELLIER, ORLEANS.
  • 1994 • EP IN BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER), SUP'TG - PERMANENT EP AT THE MERCURE HOTELS IN BLOIS (1994 AND 1995) AND ORLEANS (FROM 1994 TO 2001).
  • 1993 • EP IN TOURS (INDRE ET LOIRE) - EP IN VINEUIL (LOIR ET CHER), VIEUX CHÊNE – EP AT THE CHÂTEAU DE L'ETANG IN SARAN (LOIRET) - EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR (PUBLIC PRIZE) IN CHOUZY SUR CISSE (LOIR ET CHER).
  • 1992 • EP ORLEANS POST OFFICE LA SOURCE: SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS - TF1 STUDIOS, SACRÉE SOIRÉE (PARIS) - EP IN BLOIS GENERAL COUNCIL OF LOIR ET CHER - EP 30 YEARS OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTS UNDER THE HIGH PATRONAGE OF THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION, CRDP OF ORLEANS - EP INAUGURATION OF THE VINEUIL TOWN HALL (LOIR ET CHER).
  • 1991 • EP MOZART EXHIBITION, 14 SCULPTURES PRESENTED IN THE MAIN CITIES OF THE CENTRE REGION - EP FIRST EXHIBITION AT THE PYRAMIDE FRANÇOIS IER IN ROMORANTIN (LOIR ET CHER) - EP ORLEANS EXHIBITION CENTER: ENSEM - ORLEANS EXPO FAIR: HIGH SCHOOL AND STUDENT FAIR - ANTIQUE FAIR AT THE ORLEANS EXPO FAIR - EP SCULPTURES AT THE MONOD HIGH SCHOOL IN SAINT JEAN DE BRAYE (LOIRET) - PAINTINGS AT THE RESTAURANTS DU COEUR AT THE ORLEANS TOWN HALL - ORLEANS EXHIBITION CENTER: FIST TECHNO PLUS - EP MAIN POST OFFICES IN ORLEANS AND LA SOURCE, BOURGES (PRINTEMPS DE BOURGES, DEAR), MONTARGIS (LOIRET), ...
  • 1990 • EP 30 CONTEMPORARY ART SCULPTURES UNDER THE HIGH PATRONAGE OF THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY OF ORLEANS) - MONDIAL DE L'ART (CNIT, LA DÉFENSE), PARIS - EP REGIONAL COUNCIL OF THE CENTRE, HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLEGES SCHOOLS - EP LYCÉE POTHIER D'ORLEANS: SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS - EP IN MARYLAND, BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER): SCULPTURES ON BEETHOVEN.
  • 1989 • EP IN ORLEANS, REGIONAL COUNCIL OF THE CENTRE REGION: SCULPTURES - EP AT THE ORLEANS SCANNER - EP AT THE ORLEANS CAL (PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, TERRACOTTA) - COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF SAINT PIERRE LE PUELLIER (ORLEANS) WITH ORLEANS ARTISTS - SCULPTURES AT THE ORLEANS TOWN HALL - EP IN ORLEANS: NUMEROUS SCULPTURES EXHIBITED ON THE BICENTENARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - ARTOTHÈQUE, CHÂTEAU DE BLOIS (LOIR ET CHER) - EP IN LAMOTTE-BEUVRON (LOIR ET CHER) - INGRÉ (LOIRET).
  • 1988 • EP IN ORLEANS, LOIRET.
  • 1987 • EP IN ORLEANS, LOIRET.
  • 1986 • SALON OF ORLEANS PAINTERS (ORLEANS MUSEUM) - INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (PARIS).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INTERNATIONAL ART DIRECTORY • (ED SERMADIRAS)
  • WHO'S WHO IN INTERNATIONAL ART
  • INTERNATIONAL FINE ARTS DIRECTORY
  • ART INFORMATION
  • THE OFFICIAL ARTS • (UNESCO)
  • EMER GUIDE
  • ARTS COAST
  • DIRECTORY OF PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS • (ED P. BERTRAND)
  • BIBLIOTHECA D'ARTE, PIAZZA DELLA CANCELLERIA, ROME
  • CATALOGUES, PERIODICALS, ...
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