Bernard Damiano : Femme nue (Female Nude), c. 1966 (Oil pastel)

By DAMIANO  Bernard (1926–2000)

Bernard Damiano (1926–2000)

Femme nue (Female Nude), c. 1966
Oil pastel (pastel gras) and crayon
Signed lower right: “Damiano” (no dedication visible in this image)

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: nearly the full sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance). Damiano belonged directly to the collector’s Nice milieu: a member of the Nice Expressionist group, he exhibited at the Palais de la Méditerranée in Nice in 1960 and at the Biennale de Menton (1960, 1964, 1966, 1970).

Description: A vivid, expressionistic seated female nude — bold deformation, vibrant reds, greens and orange, with a sketched profile head at the upper right — in Damiano’s idiom inflected by Dubuffet, Art brut and CoBrA, his female nudes stirred by a “genesic delirium” recalling de Kooning. Of Italian origin, a stone-cutter and cabinet-maker before turning to painting, Bernard Damiano was encouraged at his first Nice show (1958) by the Nice painter Sylvain Vigny; he exhibited at Bernheim-Jeune in Paris and the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and is held in the Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Étienne and the Carros contemporary-art centre. He never dated his works. Signed by hand.

Price : 300,00 € ( 341.00 USD )