Jean-Yves BOISLEVE, born 1947
Les roches rougeoyantes,... Lot 5
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Jean-Yves BOISLEVE, born 1947
Les roches rougeoyantes, Riantec - 2023
Linoleum etching published in color using the lost-plate technique
on pure Velin d'ARCHES paper (chiffon). Engraving n°407 titled on the back, numbered 3/16 lower left and signed lower right in pencil.
30 x 21 cm
Located on the Ellé river, not far from Le Faouët, the chaos of the Devil's Rocks is a mythical place where, according to legend, Saint Guénolé confronted the Devil. In the chaos resulting from this battle, the power of the water
resonates against the rocks, some of which bear evocative names.
This print is an enigma: where is the treasure left behind when he was defeated after his fight with
Saint Guénolé? Perhaps under one of the glowing stones that emerge from the waves.
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Jean-Yves BOISLEVE, born 1947
Jean-Yves Boisleve's work revolves around "pay sagères" series, as the late Philippe le Stum, former curator of the Musée Breton in Quimper, wrote. These are suites of 10 to 20 engravings on wood or linoleum, produced in a very small number of copies (maximum 16) using the lost-plate etching technique.
Many of them deal with places steeped in legend (the "Huelgoat forest" suite) or visited by artists who celebrated nature in Brittany (l'Aven, the Devil's Rocks, the Crozon peninsula). They resonate as a tribute to the famous engravers who summed up nature by drawing inspiration from Japanese formal language.
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