Artist : Jean-Louis Simonin (1934)
Title : Dogmas, 2014
Technique and support: Pastel on fine paper
Special features of the work: Original drawing signed lower right and back by the artist and dated
Dimensions: 28 x 20 cm
State : Good
Provenance: Painter's workshop, the invoice engages the responsibility of the gallery as to the authenticity of the work.
Expert's comment: Jean-Louis Simonin's drawing is expressive and voluntarily simplifying. He painted without modesty in the manner of expressionists a derisory humanity sometimes pathetic but he often does it with humor. His characters often cover animals, minds, demons or gods. They are propelled into a situation where everything can switch: either to the deepest humanity or to this animality present in each of us. Jean-Louis Simonin is therefore always at the limit between the diitive and this unspeakable who haunts men. It then allows us to glimpse the unconscious, that which precedes all reason, all control. His subjects do not slide under the gaze, they stop it and question us about our own duality. The artist is also always bordering on the visible and the invisible. Jean-Louis Simonin obviously, like his friend the painter Alain-Michel Boucher, is influenced by the artists of the Cobra movement: Corneille, Pierre Alechensky, Jean Michel Atlan, Asger Jorn and Karel Appel. He revives this unruly and mocker inner child, endowed with an overflowing energy that our rationalist civilization buried in the depths of ourselves.
Artist's biography: Born in 1934 Jean-Louis Simonin on the advice of his wife who notices his talent is part of Robert Savary Professor at the Fine Arts in Rouen in the 1970s. The artist will test all the techniques, oil, gouache, engraving but also collage. Quickly, he found his style which he himself calls an expressionist. His subjects are therefore often characters who question the spectator about his own dualities. He also paints in a more figurative style the landscapes he likes like Normandy but also the Var having a workshop in the South at the Garde-Freinet near Saint-Tropez.
Sending and packaging: This work will be sent within 2 working days, properly wrapped in a solid and secure package at the ends by adhesive warranty bands. In case of return, the latter is the responsibility of the buyer under the same conditions for sending and packaging.