Artist : LAPICQUE Charles (1898-1988)
Title : The Patriot, 1986
Technical and support : Pencils and black and colored felt-tip pen on heavy paper
Size : 38 cm x 47 cm (Without frame 30 cm x 40 cm)
Particularity of the work : Original signed drawing on the lower right by the artist, titled and dated on the back "Le patriote 1996 Photos R.Q"
Origine : Certified, a certificate of authenticity engaging the responsability of the gallery will be issued
Condition : Excellent
Comments of the expert : Just mix figurative and abstract for this subject Patriot, vibrant colors and expressive stimulating the imagination. Lapicque also lets us glimpse what mixture of freedom, joy, but also sadness inherant each revolution. It raises the question of the future of this revolution. To link and understand in more detail the work we advise you to read the biography of the artist below.
BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST :
Painter (creator of vital need), scientist, musician, sportsman and writer, Charles LAPICQUE is first drawing school. Orphan adopted by his uncle, he find adults rudes, inquisitives and talkatives. He loves also being deeply animals. Young engineer in Normandy, he meets the painters SIGNAC, MARQUET and Albert ANDRE which makes him want to become a painter (it's in the Normandy loneliness that his vocation was born). He is fascinated also by the cubists BRAQUE and PICASSO. Galerie Jeanne Bucher quickly exhibited his works having spotted independent living. In 1978, the Georges Pompidou museum organizes an exhibition of his drawings imporante which hold an important place in his work. In the drawings, oils and lithographs, it's the same vivacity, the same security trait spouting the same search for invention, the same transformation of the imagination becomes reality. He also leaves through his approach to his subjects glimpse the future adventure. Throughout his life, his palette and technique will change depending on his travels (Normandy, Britain, Italy, Greece, Spain, Holland ...), making faithfully the impression of a day.

It will certainly have been one of the most influential painters of the School of Paris which were part of great artists such as Altan, Dewasne, Dubuffet, Hartung, Kijno, Lanskoy, Manessier, Pignon, Poliakoff, ... His painting is ardie and reflects the fun painter and vibrating color. His works, figurative mixture of abstract and surrealism let perceive various aspects of the creator:
- Normal cruelty given the artist's character
- A melee sympathy a little sadness
- A wonderful constant humor
- A youth incomparable spirit
- A cultured man, passionate and original
This biography was developed by us following our expertise and various reference books on the artist in our possession, copying is prohited.
