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Post-war abstraction - Second École de Paris - Selected works 20th centur
Mixed media (gouache, acrylic, pencil) on paper mounted on panel
Signed lower right
Very good condition
Dimensions 105 x 73 cm – framed 126 x 94 cm
Bernard Lorjou, born in Blois, was a self-taught French painter and engraver. After working in various jobs, he trained in Francis Ducharne's studio and through contact with artists, notably Georges Valmier.
Freed from financial worries thanks to Georges Megros, he devoted himself to painting and began exhibiting in 1928, before holding his first solo exhibition in 1945. Winner of the Critics' Prize in 1948 with L'enfant et ses sortilèges (The Child and His Spells), he founded the group ‘L'homme témoin’ (The Witness Man) with Buffet, Rebeyrolle and Minaux to defend figurative art against abstraction.
Committed and polemical, he denounced war, pollution and segregation through his humanistic and expressive painting. His powerful and colourful work combines caricature and superimposed flat areas of colour, inviting the viewer to read the details and emotions.
An ardent defender of figurative art and expression, his works have been exhibited in numerous salons and museums in France and abroad. Lorjou remains a major and original figure in 20th-century French painting.
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