ANDRE BRASILIER (1929) Classic figure at the edge... Lot 231

ANDRE BRASILIER (1929) Classic figure at the edge of the mediterranean Ceramic dish with hand-painted blue decoration, monogrammed. Signed on the reverse and dated Vallauris 4/IV/86 (April 4, 1986). Dimensions : d. 28,3 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.