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Oil The Four Seasons Manner of Lucien Coutaud
QUALITY WORK IN OILS ON CANVAS IN THE MANNER OF LUCIEN COUTAUD ( Born Meynes 1904 - Died Paris 1977 )
A large, bold and beautiful surrealist composition depicting the Four Seasons, somewhat reminiscent of the work of Lucien Coutaud (1904-1977). There are several annotations on the stretcher bars, and the previous owner had attributed the work to Franco-Spanish artist Juana Faure, but I am not sure this is conclusive. To my mind, it is certainly the work of an artist who did theatre decors or murals.
Decorative and original, it is a stunning piece.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Son of a provencal goldsmith, Lucien Coutaud studied at the Beaux-Arts Academy in Nîmes from 1920, where he was a student of Armand Coussens, who is an excellent engraver and who probably initiates him to the techniques of printmaking. He moved in Paris in 1924, where he attended the free academies of Montparnasse. He meets the writer Marc Bernard at this time.
The young Coutaud is interested in the Louvre Primitives, but also in the works of Chirico, Max Ernst and Paul Klee. In 1925, he met André Fraigneau for whom he illustrated Spectacles, his first book published by Jo Fabre. He was then admitted to the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in the same year. In 1926, on the advice of Andre Salmon, he met Charles Dullin who asked him to make the sets and costumes of The Birds, Aristophanes's play, adapted by Bernard Zimmer. By the end of the year he was called to military service, first in Saint Cloud, and then in Mainz in the Rhineland.
The stay he made in 1927 on the banks of the Rhine, far from his native Provence, allows him to leave behind the principles that were taught to him at the Beaux-Arts to adopt a personal pictorial language, characterized by landscapes in a gray-blue shades and with a very soft light.
In April 1928, he is back in Paris and in 1929 painted his first important paintings: La Bicyclette, Female and Soldier, Soldiers arresting a spy, Young Girl with three wheels. In 1930 he produced his first etchings, drypoint on zinc : Rhineland Souvenir, Three Amazons, The Cyclist, The Morning. He enters into relationship with the writer Jean Blanzat.
In 1931, the Quatre Chemins gallery in Paris organized his first solo exhibition. In 1932, he worked almost exclusively with gouache, painting many bouquets of flowers and large esoteric compositions. He also creates stage sets and costumes for Le Chateau des Papes of André de Richaud directed by Charles Dullin at the Théâtre de l'Atelier and for Venus and Adonis by André Obey directed by Michel Saint-Denis and presented by the Compagnie des Quinze. He is interested by the surrealist group activities, reads Breton, Soupault, Aragon and many others nevertheless he does not engage with the group because he wants to keep his independence.
He attended many events of the avant-garde group, alongside the surrealists without really joining the group, dedicated since 1940 to an art that he described as "surreal". During these years he affirms his graphic style, close to surrealism, through the use of an unusual imaging where dreams and reality intertwine.
The period of the Second World War is a period of great depression for the artist, overwhelmed by a loathing of humanity and the development of diabetes that will makes him suffer all his life. It is a dark period for Coutaud, compounded by illness and questions about identity. The characters represented in his paintings lose their flesh, reduced to the state of skeletons, then fragmented and deprivated of faces in the manner of mannequins or robots, only retaining their sexuality to keep a track of humanity. Reformed, he created sets and costumes for the theater, tapestries and revives engraving.
In 1948, after the death of his father, Coutaud discovered the coast of Brittany by traveling to Belle-Ile-en-Mer and then settled near the Channel in 1952 in a house he calls "brick horse", which is one of his main sources of inspiration.
His figurative style, evolving into oneiric abstraction, is close to surrealism, presenting with southern colors the bullfighting poetry, the drama of death. This painter-poet who was a friend of Jean Blanzat, Fraigneau, Marc Bernard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Oscar Dominguez, Paul Eluard, Picasso, Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian, Gilbert Lely, Jean Paul Sartre, Yves Tanguy, and Félix Labisse never ceased to assert his independence. Lucien Coutaud invented Éroticomagie, which is a painting of a world centered on an individual and his metamorphosis, but always with a sexual connotation, like the impressive series of "Taureaumagies" or the "Swans-People". The Éroticomagie is a carnal and dreamlike fusion of Eros and magic, a reflection of his inner world.
The painter's world, which he delivers through his paintings of dream fragments is completed steps by steps over them time. The artist paints indeed various subjects that populate his imagination: "Characters, vegetable and mineral houses, metamorphoses, large tracts of land and irons." He then appropriates these issues and transpose them into another poetic reality.
CONDITION: Very Good / Slight Wear of Gold On Frame
FRAMED MEASUREMENTS:
Height 30.25 Inches ( 77 cm )
Width: 43 Inches ( 109 cm )
Depth : 2 Inches ( 5 cm )
DELIVERY
UK Delivery By Fine Art Courier [ Allow 7-10 Days ] Add £80
WORLDWIDE Supply USA & ASIA £325
TELEPHONE ENQUIRIES: 07765 856171
QUOTE REF 0797
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A large, bold and beautiful surrealist composition depicting the Four Seasons, somewhat reminiscent of the work of Lucien Coutaud (1904-1977). There are several annotations on the stretcher bars, and the previous owner had attributed the work to Franco-Spanish artist Juana Faure, but I am not sure this is conclusive. To my mind, it is certainly the work of an artist who did theatre decors or murals.
Decorative and original, it is a stunning piece.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Son of a provencal goldsmith, Lucien Coutaud studied at the Beaux-Arts Academy in Nîmes from 1920, where he was a student of Armand Coussens, who is an excellent engraver and who probably initiates him to the techniques of printmaking. He moved in Paris in 1924, where he attended the free academies of Montparnasse. He meets the writer Marc Bernard at this time.
The young Coutaud is interested in the Louvre Primitives, but also in the works of Chirico, Max Ernst and Paul Klee. In 1925, he met André Fraigneau for whom he illustrated Spectacles, his first book published by Jo Fabre. He was then admitted to the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in the same year. In 1926, on the advice of Andre Salmon, he met Charles Dullin who asked him to make the sets and costumes of The Birds, Aristophanes's play, adapted by Bernard Zimmer. By the end of the year he was called to military service, first in Saint Cloud, and then in Mainz in the Rhineland.
The stay he made in 1927 on the banks of the Rhine, far from his native Provence, allows him to leave behind the principles that were taught to him at the Beaux-Arts to adopt a personal pictorial language, characterized by landscapes in a gray-blue shades and with a very soft light.
In April 1928, he is back in Paris and in 1929 painted his first important paintings: La Bicyclette, Female and Soldier, Soldiers arresting a spy, Young Girl with three wheels. In 1930 he produced his first etchings, drypoint on zinc : Rhineland Souvenir, Three Amazons, The Cyclist, The Morning. He enters into relationship with the writer Jean Blanzat.
In 1931, the Quatre Chemins gallery in Paris organized his first solo exhibition. In 1932, he worked almost exclusively with gouache, painting many bouquets of flowers and large esoteric compositions. He also creates stage sets and costumes for Le Chateau des Papes of André de Richaud directed by Charles Dullin at the Théâtre de l'Atelier and for Venus and Adonis by André Obey directed by Michel Saint-Denis and presented by the Compagnie des Quinze. He is interested by the surrealist group activities, reads Breton, Soupault, Aragon and many others nevertheless he does not engage with the group because he wants to keep his independence.
He attended many events of the avant-garde group, alongside the surrealists without really joining the group, dedicated since 1940 to an art that he described as "surreal". During these years he affirms his graphic style, close to surrealism, through the use of an unusual imaging where dreams and reality intertwine.
The period of the Second World War is a period of great depression for the artist, overwhelmed by a loathing of humanity and the development of diabetes that will makes him suffer all his life. It is a dark period for Coutaud, compounded by illness and questions about identity. The characters represented in his paintings lose their flesh, reduced to the state of skeletons, then fragmented and deprivated of faces in the manner of mannequins or robots, only retaining their sexuality to keep a track of humanity. Reformed, he created sets and costumes for the theater, tapestries and revives engraving.
In 1948, after the death of his father, Coutaud discovered the coast of Brittany by traveling to Belle-Ile-en-Mer and then settled near the Channel in 1952 in a house he calls "brick horse", which is one of his main sources of inspiration.
His figurative style, evolving into oneiric abstraction, is close to surrealism, presenting with southern colors the bullfighting poetry, the drama of death. This painter-poet who was a friend of Jean Blanzat, Fraigneau, Marc Bernard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Oscar Dominguez, Paul Eluard, Picasso, Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian, Gilbert Lely, Jean Paul Sartre, Yves Tanguy, and Félix Labisse never ceased to assert his independence. Lucien Coutaud invented Éroticomagie, which is a painting of a world centered on an individual and his metamorphosis, but always with a sexual connotation, like the impressive series of "Taureaumagies" or the "Swans-People". The Éroticomagie is a carnal and dreamlike fusion of Eros and magic, a reflection of his inner world.
The painter's world, which he delivers through his paintings of dream fragments is completed steps by steps over them time. The artist paints indeed various subjects that populate his imagination: "Characters, vegetable and mineral houses, metamorphoses, large tracts of land and irons." He then appropriates these issues and transpose them into another poetic reality.
CONDITION: Very Good / Slight Wear of Gold On Frame
FRAMED MEASUREMENTS:
Height 30.25 Inches ( 77 cm )
Width: 43 Inches ( 109 cm )
Depth : 2 Inches ( 5 cm )
DELIVERY
UK Delivery By Fine Art Courier [ Allow 7-10 Days ] Add £80
WORLDWIDE Supply USA & ASIA £325
TELEPHONE ENQUIRIES: 07765 856171
QUOTE REF 0797
Price The price has been listed in British Pounds.
Conversion rates as of 25/JUL/2024. Euro & Dollar prices will vary and should only be used as a guide.
Always confirm final price with dealer. SOLD
DimensionsFRAMED MEASUREMENTS:
Height 30.25 Inches ( 77 cm )
Width: 43 Inches ( 109 cm )
Depth : 2 Inches ( 5 cm )
Category Antique Pictures / Engravings / Art
> Antique Oil Paintings
Date 1957-58
1950s Antiques Material Oil Painting on Canvas
Origin French
Condition Good Order Commensurate With Age / Frame Gilt Worn & Slightly Distressed But Respectable & Original
Item code as153a1016 / 0797
Status Sold
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Shipping costs are charged based on the particular service used [ either next day express or economy ] and Size / Weight of item.
Delivery by private courier within the UK Mainland will be used for very large paintings and is charged at a flat rate of £80 for paintings only [ allow 7-14 days delivery time ]
International Delivery Quotes Worldwide are available on request by providing your full name and address together with a postal / area code and a contact number.
Returns are accepted within 14 days of receipt if the item is found to have been misdescribed and the purchaser may be liable for the return costs subject to reasons for return.
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Once we receive the item in good order as supplied not withstanding notified transit damage, we will return payment using the same payment method.
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Tel : 07765856171
Non UK callers : +44 7765856171
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