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Bernard Delheure
Dejeuner sur l'herbe, 2021
$1,723
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Medium
Dimensions cm | inch
25 x 50 x 2 cm 9.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
Support
Framing
Not framed
Type
Unique work
Authenticity
Work sold with an invoice from the gallery
and a certificate of authenticity
Signature
Hand-signed by artist
About the artwork
Artwork sold in perfect condition
It was in 1953 that Bernard Delheure was born. Very early on he was attracted to drawing and the search for shapes.
During his schooling at Lycée Mignet in Aix-en-Provence, his teachers noticed him by his innovative temperament, spending most of his time munching on those around him.
Passionate about biology, he regularly attends the Natural History Museum, where he copies and sketches animals and other specimens.
Later, he attended the Fine Arts where he learned the rigor of drawing and the complexity of composition and color. But he quickly realizes that the painting he is doing is flat without vibration. How did the elders do? What technique, what materials did they use? Years of research on the substrate, varnishes, mediums and colors will follow. Half pasta and glaze will allow him to work on transparency by a work of superposition.
His work is only a result of disappointed hope until the day when, during a trip to Holland to discover the works of Johannes Vermeer and his contemporaries, he discovers the ease, ease and accuracy of 'a sure technique and yet so simple. Many exhibitions will follow during all these years where he will try to purify, to go to the essential... These last paintings will disconcert collectors as much by their sobriety as by their innovation. He particularly likes painting the transparency of glass and tries to suggest the intangible: hard program..