Jacques Ostapoff

Born in 1946 in Lyon and nephew of the painter Cottavoz, Jacques Ostapoff joined the Lyon School movement and printed his personal paste there like a brand. Ostapoff began painting at the age of 35. His first exhibition in 1983 at the Roosvelt hotel in Lyon. “Ostapoff paints by day in natural light in a room filled with light. A canvas will be tender, violent, opulent, generous but the dream will always be the impulse of this canvas and somewhere the painter is reborn… ”Le Petit Louvre, à la Pacaudière. The work hypnotizes the gaze and welcomes it. Ostapoff's painting offers the freedom to surrender to a multitude of fluid, vivid and essential impressions.