Lot n° 91
Estimation :
300 - 400
EUR
Francis MONTANIER (1895-1974)
"Composition" 1962
Oil on panel
Signed and dated 62 lower left, countersigned on the back
38 x 55 cm
This former first Grand Prix de Rome engraving was the neighbour and friend of Georges Braque. It would be unfair to apply Brancusi's words, refusing Rodin's support, to such a close presence: "Nothing grows under tall trees. "If a few themes, a few accessories - boats, birds, fish, jugs... - are common to both artists, Montanier, with his sharp and hard-edged shapes, with his colours, which are willingly deaf - they know how to burst, if necessary - has succeeded in freeing himself, in making abstraction of the object.
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