ANDRE BRASILIER (1929) Lot n° 230

Woman and the bird Ceramic vase with hand-painted polychrome decoration of a woman's profile and a bird on a blue background. The neck broken and glued. Mark on the back, Sassi-Milic Vallauris, original imprint A. Brasiler, signed and numbered 13/30 Dimensions : h. 39 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 the life, he defines himself as a "transfigurative" painter and according to him, the painting is above all transfiguration of the real 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.