Expert comment: Influenced by Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Jules Pascin, Claude Venard and Bernard Buffet, the artist can be described as a Post-Cubist and Expressionist. michel de alvis excels in still life but he is also very talented in Nude . Passionate about traveling (France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, etc.), he gives us in his works these fabulous Mediterranean landscapes that he loves so much. The artist uses all techniques and varies the media to better serve the subject. His thick lines, which sometimes tend to slightly distort reality, particularly in his still lifes and Nude , give an impression of movement and provoke an emotional reaction in the viewer. The use of pure colors and their juxtaposition reinforce these effects and give a life of their own to the elements composing the work. 

Biography : michel de alvis (1936-2019) was born in Paris in the 10th arrondissement. FThey are a piano manufacturer and a fashion designer, he spent his entire childhood in Montmartre among painters and artists.  Nicknamed the painter of Paris, he lived in the 18th arrondissement near Montmartre and owned a workshop at the foot of the Chaumont hills all his life. After studying graphic design, he took drawing lessons and enrolled in various workshops including that of Daniel du Janerand. The artist will draw and paint Paris all his life which inspired him these few lines: 

“Paris my city, my beautiful city, eternal and yet so changing and disturbing but never disappointing to which I always return despite the beauties discovered elsewhere. Paris, my beautiful love, which I have traveled from North to South, from East to West, from the top of its towers to its little courtyards, Paris which pulses and which beats, Paris can you feel my heart which beats at the same time? unison? »

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