Camille Hilaire : La Méditerranée, c. 1968 (Watercolour)

By HILAIRE Camille (1916-2004)

Camille Hilaire (1916–2004)
La Méditerranée, c. 1968
Watercolour, with touches of gouache
Signed and inscribed by hand, lower left: “La Méditerranée / Pour Yves Guérin / en toute amitié”, signed “Hilaire”

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). Hilaire belonged directly to the collector’s Nice circle: in 1961 he exhibited in “Dix peintres autour de Jacques Villon” — organised by François Bret (no. 1 in this guest book) — at the Palais de la Méditerranée in Nice.

Description: A vivid, faceted Mediterranean composition — sea, coast and abstracted rigging-like forms — built from intense blues, fresh greens and luminous yellows in Hilaire’s characteristic post-cubist manner, structured on the golden ratio. A Metz-born painter, lithographer, tapestry and stained-glass artist, Hilaire trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris under Nicolas Untersteller and Maurice Brianchon and taught at Nancy and then the ENSBA in Paris. A fully realised, characteristic watercolour, signed and dedicated by hand to the collector.

Price : 800,00 € ( 911.00 USD )