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Gilbert Sabatier, Quand la nuit tombe, Painting on canvas
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Gilbert Sabatier, Quand la nuit tombe, Painting on canvas
Gilbert Sabatier, Quand la nuit tombe, Painting on canvas
Gilbert Sabatier, Quand la nuit tombe, Painting on canvas

Quand la nuit tombe, 1973
Gilbert Sabatier

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Painting : oil

73 x 54 x 2 cm 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch

€1,800

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Unique work

Signature

Hand-signed by artist

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Medium

Painting: oil

Dimensions cm • inch

73 x 54 x 2 cm 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth

Support

Painting on canvas on stretcher

Framing

Sky blue ornate

Artwork dimensions including frame

76 x 57 x 3.7 cm 29.9 x 22.4 x 1.5 inch

Tags

Nude

Portrait

Landscape

Human body

Colors

Women

Eyes

Faces

Beige

Red

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

Work from the period “In search of the timeless" (1972-1974)

Compared to “Aerial Surrealism", this new period did not constitute a break but testified to my more serene vision of human beings facing their metaphysical questions.

Excluding any scientific basis, my interpretation was synonymous with the acceptance of quantifiable human time and infinite divine time. However, I opened windows onto possible spaces of timelessness.

By stopping or slowing down cosmic mechanics, I wondered if men could access eternity while freeing themselves from the order designed by the Great Architect.

By compressing our biological duration to the second and the universe to the century, I slipped pauses into these clocks. These erased space and duration. However, I did not deny time. I suspended it and made it my own by welding past, present and future. I objected to a before and after Big Bang. My steps no longer followed those of the god Chronos: no beginning or end.

When reading, listening to music or looking at photographs, I always felt the physical presence of the fictional characters and their creators.

How many times have I let myself be carried away by a 19th century symphony and experienced the return to life of my favorite composers?

Little by little, the idea came to me of possibilities of resistance to time. The representation of my fantasies changed. My characters became flesh beings again. Their spirituality and understanding of the infinite made them seem less translucent. They found themselves in spheres of humanity. Their anxieties disappeared, giving way to serenity.

On my paintings, men became aware that, by their very existence, they could model time Freed from the agonies of identity questions, they no longer tried to hide the ephemeral. Although the solitude was still present, the general atmosphere of my paintings was tinged with a warmer color. Suspended, the dreams of my creatures no longer released this poisonous milk which once paralyzed them to the point of forgetting that they were alive.

Furthermore, I wanted my art to go beyond the traditional representation of nature through its projections. Far from Cartesian thought and scientific rigor, my works played with the unconscious. Perhaps they were trying to interpret nature so that it would end up imitating them...

In any case, this new period tended towards a reconciliation with the deserved Eden. I was no longer suggesting cataclysms. Human beings had their destiny in hand. If they were not the originator of the spark of all life, they were the ones who thought and acted.

The dark backgrounds of my paintings were crossed by lightning reflecting celestial deserts, privileged places of meditation. The poses of the characters became more restful and more static, like a suspended time of reflection.

The unity of my paintings combined well-being and communion. I no longer represented damnation, resurrection, divine anger and floods, signs of the faults of humanity. On the contrary, my characters, thinking beings, became the universe in an understanding with the cosmos.

Vallobra, art critic, discoverer of the surrealist painter Delvaux, wrote in 1973 that the fantastic and the Dantesque confront each other in the work, bordering on the surreal as conceived by G. Sabatier.

A breath evoking tragic biblical scenes seems to separate and dislocate man between light and darkness.

By ignoring Sabatier's tormented subjectivity and only defining his objectivity in a pictorial way, we can consider that his research into decanting and dematerializing the mass and volume of painted subjects achieves transfiguration by only juxtaposing with a extreme finesse the soul of things.

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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

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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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