Printer: Mourlot

Dimensions: 64 x 48 cm

Condition: Very good 

Frame: Oak

Artist: Paul Rebeyrolle (1926 - 2005) was a French painter. He was born near Limoges and learned to paint in childhood during long periods of immobility from tuberculosis. Surrounded by the French countryside and its traditions, he had a passion for hunting, fishing and slaughterhouses, subjects which would later feature in his earthy-toned landscapes featuring caricature-like people. He moved to Paris in 1944 to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Six years later, he won the Prix de la Jeune Peinture (Young Painter Prize) and earned a reputation as a leader in the realist tendency – opposition to abstraction in post-war France. His paintings were often tempered with violence. Outside of the studio, he joined the French Communist Party but left before the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. In the same year, his art developed into a looser style, which by the 1960s had morphed into swathes of swirling and splashing paint.