Pierre Patureau (Bordeaux 1924 - Vic Fesenzac 2020) - Watercolor on drawing paper - "  3 lineups "-  Unsigned 

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Dimensions 29 x 21 cm - Very good general condition - Protected shipping, secure packaging - Fast shipping

Provenance, Sale from the Artist's studio - A Certificate of Authenticity will be issued on request

Pierre PATUREAU.

 Born in 1924 in Bordeaux where he studied at the Beaux-Arts from 1939 to 1945, it was in Morocco that he spent his youth, began a career in education to gradually "enter painting, as one enters religion" in from the 60s.

Nomadic artist, he walks his easel in Morocco, Spain, South America, Germany, Italy or the United States, brings back several hundred sketches taken on the spot, chronicles of travels, meetings, all in notebooks, series of watercolors or pastels, realizes in particular at the request of the Grand Theater Mohammed V of Rabat several theater or Opera sets but from 1963, chooses to devote himself mainly to painting, hangs his works on picture rails of the most illustrious galleries and multiply the rewards and recognitions.

Installed in Vic-Fezensac since 1997, he died in 2020.

"THE MAGICIAN OF LIGHT" If we have long compared Patureau's painting to that of his illustrious predecessor William Turner, it is for the treatment of the vaporous and powdery light which blur the outlines, sometimes radiate the landscapes, accentuate some figures or sometimes on the contrary project them in an almost mystical immensity. Romantic, Patureau's compositions lead the gaze well beyond the sole and grandiose representation of nature where humble anonymous silhouettes can be guessed, to lose themselves in contemplation and question the sublime.

Orientalist, the painter represents the long gandouras of the men of the Sahara, the bold arrows of the minarets, the sandstorms, the return from fishing or the alleys of the animated dyers. A whole world of legends, animated and vibrant with colors that are both familiar and sometimes mythological or biblical...