Roger Limouse : Nature morte au bouquet (Still Life with a Bouquet), 1968 (Coloured oil crayon)

By Jean CLUSEAU-LANAUVE (1914–1997)

Roger Limouse (1894–1989)
Nature morte au bouquet (Still Life with a Bouquet), August 1968
Coloured oil crayon / oil pastel  
Dedicated and signed by hand, lower edge: “A Yves Guérin”, signed “R. Limouse”; dated lower left “Août 68”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: the central field of the sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance).

Description: A Fauvist explosion of colour — a luxuriant multicoloured bouquet (pink, yellow, orange, blue, green) rising above a green table set with a white vase and a dish of fruit, flanked by yellow wicker chairs, the whole rendered in broken, vibrant strokes. Roger Limouse was a French painter, a pupil of Paul Albert Laurens at the Académie Julian and professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (1948–64); one of the last representatives of Fauvism and the eldest of the “Peintres de la réalité poétique,” he was nicknamed “the last roaring Fauve” and devoted his art to colour and to Baudelaire’s “Fleurs du Mal.” He divided his life between Paris and Menton on the Côte d’Azur, and bouquets and fauve still lifes are characteristic of his work. His work is held at the Centre Pompidou. Signed and dedicated by hand.

Price : 400,00 € ( 455.00 USD )