Jean-Pierre Augier – Procession de pénitents, c. 1970 (Felt-tip pen)

By DAMIANO  Bernard (1926–2000)

Jean-Pierre Augier (b. 1941)
Procession de pénitents, c. 1970
Felt-tip pen
Dedicated and signed by hand, lower left: “À Yves Guérin en toute sympathie”, signed “Augier”

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). Augier is a quintessential artist of the arrière-pays niçois, tying the sheet directly to the collector’s Riviera milieu.

Description: A spare, elegant felt-tip drawing of four hooded penitents in procession, tall processional standards rising between them — a religious subject drawn from the Niçois and Provençal tradition of penitent brotherhoods. Jean-Pierre Augier is a French sculptor of the Nice hinterland (Levens / Saint-Blaise), the self-taught “magician of iron” who welds old abandoned tools into living figures; religious subjects are among his favourite themes, and he is first of all a fine draughtsman, always drawing his subjects before realising them. Named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2003), he exhibits internationally and his collection is permanently shown at the Maison du Portal in Levens. Signed and dedicated by hand.

Price : 100,00 € ( 113.00 USD )