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“Petite pharmacie” © François Barbâtre
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Name: François
Barbâtre
Bio:
François
Barbâtre claims to have been born at the age of nine. That was when he
discovered, in school, that the leaf of a plane tree might be painted to
resemble the real thing. From then he never looked back. At high school he
became disenchanted with his art teacher, to the extent that he declined to
enrol in the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts. It was necessary to look elsewhere for an
authentic education in painting. A brief excursion to Italy lasted long enough to
discover Cimabue in Florence, and the mosaics of Ravenna and Venice. Approaching
thirty, he found himself a master in the person of Robert Tatin, with whom he
studied Seurat, among others. In Paris, rue Rambuteau, the famous Roché pastels
converted him to that medium, and he met there a kindred spirit, Sam Szafran.
At the 1977 Paris Festival d'Automne he showed his paintings and acquired
a dealer. His apprenticeship was over, from now on he had only his art to rely
on.
Barbâtre has exhibited in France, Belgium, Austria,
Germany and Brazil; his most recent exhibition was a retrospective in Galerie
Jacques Elbaz, Paris. His studio is in Montmarte.
Medium: Pastel
Subjects: Still life; figurative.
Style: Pared back, minimalist. His eureka moment was
seeing Cézanne watercolours at the impressionable age of sixteen.
Navigation: This website is in French. Navigation is
from the top and always available.
Gallery: Oeuvre: Récentes; Aperçu.
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Petite pharmacie is 24 x 33 cm, 1656 x 1201, 579 KB.
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