André BRASILIER (né en 1929) Horses under a tree, Oil... Lot 203

André BRASILIER (né en 1929) Horses under a tree, Oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm Signed lower right André Brasilier (Work realized in 1963) A certificate from Alexis Brasilier will be given to the buyer. In 1963 André Brasilier discovered, in parallel to his fascination for the rigor of the Cadre Noir in Saumur, a breed of free horses that offered the artist a new source of inspiration and "whose observation enriched his desire to extract a plastic value from his subjects. The relationship of lines and colors laid down by spots are significant of the successful assimilation of the painting of the Nabis. (...) The horse evolves in a nature whose necessity and omnipresence are inseparable from its perception of visual reality. It is in this way that Brasilier's painting is in line with the continuity of French art, and that he can take up Cézanne's wish to achieve a Poussin remade on nature. His daily face-to-face encounter with nature was offered to him by the Tardenois where he set up a new emblematic studio" in André Brasilier by Lydia Harambourg, Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris, 2008