Alain Brayer

Alain Brayer was born on January 4, 1920 in Bourges, France. Lise Cormery dedicated a biographical and monographic book "Alain Brayer" to him in 2001. At the request of his brother Yves, then fashionable institutional figurative painter, his father forbade him to bear the artist name Brayer, socially denying him. Also, he signed in turn: Alain Brayer, Bastien, around 1938. Passabosc, around 1954.

Alain Brayer, around 1989. 1937. Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Drawing of antique Galleries of Fine Arts. 1938-1950. Beaux-Arts in Paris. At the same time, he studies painting, engraving and fresco. 1943. Antique medal. 1st Chenavard engraving prize. 1943. Decorator at the Manufacture de Sèvres. 1947. One-year scholarship, USA, University of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Wall painting on the theme of winter sports at La Madera resort. Six-month stay in Sweden. 1950. Rothschild Foundation in London. 1955-1957. Casa Velasquez, Spain. 1957. Descartes House, Utrecht, Holland. 1959-1990. Professor of painting, engraving and drawing at the Beaux-Arts in Clermont-Ferrand. 1979 1990. President of the Billom-Bataille association Literary and artistic meetings, Exhibitions of artists including André Masson, Jean Fautrier, Etienne Martin, Raymond Queneau.

Shows: 1958. "Formes et Matières", Helsinki, Finland, under his pseudonym Passabosc with Atlan, Dubuffet, Hartung, Manessier, Zoran Music, Vieira da Silva, Soulages and Zao Wou Ki. 1958 Galerie Jean Estève and Galerie de l'Odéon. Paris. Traveling exhibition in Germany. Knowledge of the East Gallery, Paris. Vicense Gallery, Austria.

"Painters of the School of Paris" in Copenhagen, Denmark. Galerie Le Hallier, Paris 1998 Galerie 17 Clermont-Ferrand. 2001 Lise Cormery Art and Communication Gallery. 6, rue de Lanneau. Paris. 75005, which devotes a monographic and biographical work to him.

Alain Brayer is in many private and public collections including: France, two oils on canvas, Cabinet des Estampes, two engravings. Museum of Bourges engravings. The auctioneer Aguttes organized a successful sale for him in 2001.