'Le point de vue du torero' signed and dated '52 lower left; signed, dated and titled on the reverse oil on canvas, 27x46 cm Provenance: - Galerie de France, Paris. - Private collection, Wassenaar, The Netherlands. Exhibited: - Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe-Museum, 'Elf tijdgenoten uit Parijs' (Eleven Contemporaries from Paris), April/May 1953, cat. no. 72. - The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, June 1953, cat. no. 72. - Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1953, cat. no. 60. Gustave Singier was born in 1909 in Warneton, Belgium. He spends his childhood in German occupied Belgium. From the age of 14, Gustave Singier starts to paint. He follows courses at the Boulle School for 3 years, then he works as a designer of interior architecture and furniture until 1936. He designs and paints at the same time as he works. Singier meets the painter Charles Walch who encourages him and reveals to him the freedom of pictorial expression, notably that which concerns colour. He participates in numerous Parisian Salons from 1936 - Salon des Independants, Salon d’Automne, Salon des Tuileries, etc. He becomes friends with Alfred Manessier and Jean Le Moal From this period, his pictorial evolution intertwines with that of Manessier, depending on one or the other’s need to find an objective support in variations of abstract colours or, to the contrary, making an effort to complete liberation. Elevated by a poetic sense, there is in this art a new impressionism that is similar to cubist compositions. In 1941, Singier joins a group of young artists that show their work in the exhibition ‘Vingt Peintres de tradition francaise’ (Twenty Painters of the French Tradition) at the Braun Gallery, an exhibition in defiance of the Nazi military occupation. In 1945 he is one of the founding members of the Salon de Mai. As with other painters of his generation, Singier discovers Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian. This new path is the determining factor in liberating Singier from pictorial form. Singier’s work separates itself from Manessier, as he finds his own personal qualities. Resorting to tachiste techniques, his art becomes more fluid, thanks to the effects of watercolour. This is where the artist excels. The work of Gustave Singier expands in diverse ways: from mural painting, tapestry, stained glass, mosaics, costumes and theatre set design, engravings, lithographs, to illustrated works. Gustave Singier will teach in Paris, at the Ranson Academy from 1951-1954, then at the School of Fine Arts from 1967-1978. Gustave Singier French since his naturalisation in 1947, dies in Paris in 1984.
'Le point de vue du torero' signed and dated '52 lower left; signed, dated and titled on the reverse oil on canvas, 27x46 cm Provenance: - Galerie de France, Paris. - Private collection, Wassenaar, The Netherlands. Exhibited: - Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe-Museum, 'Elf tijdgenoten uit Parijs' (Eleven Contemporaries from Paris), April/May 1953, cat. no. 72. - The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, June 1953, cat. no. 72. - Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1953, cat. no. 60. Gustave Singier was born in 1909 in Warneton, Belgium. He spends his childhood in German occupied Belgium. From the age of 14, Gustave Singier starts to paint. He follows courses at the Boulle School for 3 years, then he works as a designer of interior architecture and furniture until 1936. He designs and paints at the same time as he works. Singier meets the painter Charles Walch who encourages him and reveals to him the freedom of pictorial expression, notably that which concerns colour. He participates in numerous Parisian Salons from 1936 - Salon des Independants, Salon d’Automne, Salon des Tuileries, etc. He becomes friends with Alfred Manessier and Jean Le Moal From this period, his pictorial evolution intertwines with that of Manessier, depending on one or the other’s need to find an objective support in variations of abstract colours or, to the contrary, making an effort to complete liberation. Elevated by a poetic sense, there is in this art a new impressionism that is similar to cubist compositions. In 1941, Singier joins a group of young artists that show their work in the exhibition ‘Vingt Peintres de tradition francaise’ (Twenty Painters of the French Tradition) at the Braun Gallery, an exhibition in defiance of the Nazi military occupation. In 1945 he is one of the founding members of the Salon de Mai. As with other painters of his generation, Singier discovers Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian. This new path is the determining factor in liberating Singier from pictorial form. Singier’s work separates itself from Manessier, as he finds his own personal qualities. Resorting to tachiste techniques, his art becomes more fluid, thanks to the effects of watercolour. This is where the artist excels. The work of Gustave Singier expands in diverse ways: from mural painting, tapestry, stained glass, mosaics, costumes and theatre set design, engravings, lithographs, to illustrated works. Gustave Singier will teach in Paris, at the Ranson Academy from 1951-1954, then at the School of Fine Arts from 1967-1978. Gustave Singier French since his naturalisation in 1947, dies in Paris in 1984.
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