ANDRE BRASILIER (1929) Lot n° 229

Nude of woman Ceramic bowl on a small foot with hand-painted decoration of a nude woman in black on a blue background. Mark on the back, Sassi-Milic Vallauris, original print Boncompain, numbered 53/150 Dimensions : 3,5 x 22 cm French painter, draughtsman, lithographer and sculptor born in Saumur, André Brasilier is in perpetual search of the harmony between the plastic construction and the emotion, inspired by life, he defines himself as a "transfigurative" painter and according to him, painting is above all transfiguration of reality and not realism. André Brasilier was born of artist parents, his father Jacques was a symbolist painter, close to the Nabis. He entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1949, in the studio of Maurice Brianchon. He lived in Rome at the Villa Medici from 1954 to 1957.