Jean-pierre Le Bozec (1942) - Pastel On Paper - Portrait Of Woman With Vanity - 1986

Exceptional pastel drawing signed by Jean-Pierre le Bozec (1942) and representing a portrait of a woman with vanity. The work is signed lower right and dated 1986. It also bears a label "Alain Blondel Galerie 2". You can read the title of the work: "The letter". The blackened wood and blackened aluminum frame is also of very good quality.

Dimensions: 81cm x 65cm.

Very good state.

Born April 27, 1942, Jean-Pierre Le Bozec is a barge pastellist (he lives on a barge) who sails and works on the Vilaine in Rennes. From 1958 to 1964, Jean-Pierre Le Bozec studied at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rennes and at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. In 1973, he became a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Rennes and in 1977, he devoted himself to the practice of drawing and pastel.

After a long practice of painting in the early 70s, Jean-Pierre Le Bozec is brought to teach the living model. He rediscovers the figuration of the human body and decides to return to the essential: drawing. A few fascinating experiments, nourished by the designer's voyeurism, trigger a series of large, violent drawings in a universe of chiaroscuro sliding little by little towards a series of self-portraits. It was during this period that he began to darken the spaces in order to accentuate the luminosity of the action.

The search for an intense and deep black directs him towards pastel which guides him towards the representation of feminine universes. A veritable hymn to femininity, these young girls are represented like nymphs promised to eternal spring. These subjects come from the imagination, from known, identifiable objects, made readable by light. Some of these creatures come from his long wanderings in museums marked by eras, artists, works: Botticelli, Millet, Vermeer with his "girl with a pearl earring" who has become a "young Dutch girl who is a bit spunky". Jean-Pierre Le Bozec's pastels convey eroticism and sensuality through a velvety palette worked from various layers of pastel melted on the canvas and erased in places. Pastel virtuoso, master of light, the works of Jean-Pierre Le Bozec are also imbued with humour.