PHILIPPE AUGE ANTIQUE FRENCH MODERN STILL LIFE OIL PAINTING OLD CUBISM FRANCE 50

Description: CAPTIVATING ANTIQUE FRENCH MODERN CUBISM MIXED MEDIA IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS BY WELL-KNOWN FRENCH PAINTER PHILIPPE AUGE. (French b.1935). THIS WORK DEPICTS A SURREALIST FEMALE FIGURE CRADLING AN ARRAY OF FRUIT AGAINST AN ABSTRACT BACKGROUND. NEXT TO HER, DELICATE FLOWERS HOUSED IN A FINELY DETAILED VASE, THEIR SOFT PETALS JUXTAPOSED AGAINST THE SHARP PLANES OF THE WOMAN BODY. THE MIXED MEDIA TECHNIQUE ADDS DEPTH TO THE COMPOSITION WITH LAYERS FROM BOTH OIL PAINT AND COLLAGE ELEMENTS, GIVING THE PIECE A 3 DIMENSIONAL EFFECT. THIS PAINTING IS ONE OF PHILIPPE AUGE EARLY WORKS DATING BACK TO THE 1950s, DURING THE TIME HE WAS ENROLLED AT THE ECOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS WHILE UNDER THE MENTORSHIP OF REVERED FRENCH PAINTER GEORGES BRAQUE. THIS WORK IS SIGNED BY PHILIPPE AUGE IN THE LOWER LEFTHAND CORNER. VERY GOOD OVERALL CONDITION. MILD WEAR AS SHOWN. DIMENSIONS: 32” H x 32” W Philippe Auge (Born 1935) is active/lives in France. Philippe Auge is known for Fruit and vegetable still life, exotic female figure painting, and fabric design. Philippe Auge Born: 1935 - Paris, France Philippe Augé is one of the most accomplished painters of our time and a colorist of rare quality."?With this unusually high praise from the modern master, George Braque, the young French artist Philippe Augé embarked on a painting career which, since the 1950s, has catapulted him into a meaningful position in the contemporary art arena. Braque's assessment represents the quintessence of all the qualities associated with Augé's work today. Recognized primarily for his delicately balanced figures and lush still lifes, his paintings vibrate with a gamut of rich colors, which recalls instantly the panoply of Renaissance painting. At first glance, the subjects have a quiet quality - pulpy fruits, beautiful women clad in robes of luxurious fabrics, sensuous flowers, pastoral landscapes from region never seen by man - but a more serious study reveals something else: a surrealistic note, subtly introduced utilizing a minuscule figure looming in the background, a small animal half hidden by flowers, a simple gesture of one of his women. In 1951, while still in his teens, Augé left his native Paris and, for five years, traveled throughout Italy and Greece. The museum treasures of the 15th and 16th centuries had a profound and lasting influence on him; indeed, his earliest still lifes painted on wood panels were influenced by the Renaissance masters. Hieronymous Bosch, El Greco, da Vinci, Mantega, and Monet each influenced his maturing talent. But Augé developed his own technique and approach to painting, which sees painting as both an art and a craft. During his stay in Rome, he worked as an assistant to Guillo Coltellaci, the noted scenic designer. A painting career of his own, however, was his main interest, and in a short time, he was part of Rome's art establishment. Returning to Paris, he enrolled briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and there came to the attention of Georges Braque, who both encouraged and counseled him. His first important exhibition took place in London in 1959. Exhibitions followed in Houston, Dallas, Beverly Hills, Philadelphia, Chicago, Rome, Florence, and Paris. Thereafter, he spent short periods in Rome, Paris, New York, Athens, Dakar and Kenya. His life became tumultuous, laced with periods of intense work. Diaphanous silhouettes roving through surrealist landscapes counterbalanced violently by heavy fruits whose pulpy flesh evoked a lost paradise peopled his universe at that time. This was a Renaissance man, a modern Medici who could not appease his internal struggles. His early years were crowded with various occupations: aviator, photographer, fabric designer (for Schiaparelli and Jacques Fath), scenic and costume designer, and, for a time, auto racer. Eventually, through the ordeal of intense introspection, he was liberated from self-contradictions, an appeasement that refined his art. Since that time, one-man shows have been held in New York, Palm Beach, and Chicago, and his work has been included in numerous important shows at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Today, Augé reminds us of Scott Fitzgerald. Engulfed in a smiling nostalgia, his brilliant life is no longer a contradiction in the depths of his work; his disenchanted eye looks out on the world with amused indulgence. At the same time, his art beckons us into a world of fantasy, a newfound paradise, which brutally conveys the magnetic intellectualism of a liberated artist at work.

Price: 7500 USD

Location: Pasadena, California

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