Still Life By Frédéric Vidalens

Style: French School XX th Condition: Good condition Technique: Oil on canvas Other: Signed lower left Height: 33 cm Width: 41 cm Dimensions with frame: 38/46 cm Born in Corrèze, Frédéric VIDALENS entered the National School Superior of Fine Arts in Paris in 1944 in the studio of Jean Dupas. The VIDALENS work takes a new look at everyday objects, precisely those that we do not look at or hardly look at. With a fair stroke, Vidalens gives them life and meaning; the sober color goes to the essential of the form, the relief and the light; then silence sets in to give way to the discovery of the object to which the artist gives back nobility and meaning. The painted museum of Vidalens revisits sewing machines, skittles, tablecloths, bottles, plates... in so many perfect, immobile, eternal compositions. 1944 - 1949 National School of Fine Arts in Paris, Atelier Jean Dupas. 1947 - Trip to Italy. 1948 - Trip to Spain. Private exhibitions 1970 - Cardo Gallery, Paris. 1971 - Cardo Gallery, Paris. 1976 - Coard Gallery, Paris. 1977 - Vanuxem Gallery, Misery of Chavagnié. 1983 - Vanuxem Gallery, Paris. 1983 - FIAC Grand Palais, Paris. 1986 - Vanuxem Gallery, Paris. 1992 - Henot Gallery, Enghien-les-Bains. 1995 - Gallery 26, Paris. 1996 - Mongautier Gallery, Poitiers. 2000 - Taylor Foundation, Paris. 2001 - Visconti Gallery, Paris. Numerous group exhibitions in Paris, France and abroad, including: 1973 and 1974 - Uppsala, Stockholm and the main cities of Sweden by Galerie Medborgarskolan. 1979 - Paris, "Claude Nicolas Ledoux and Paris", Rotonde de la Villette. 1979 - 1982 - 1983 - Japan, main cities, by Yomiuri Art Gallery and Nippon Television Network Corporation. 1982 - Paris, Biennale of the 13th, Chapelle de la Salpêtrière. 1985 - Japan, Tokyo, selection of the Salon d'Automne. 1985 - Courbevoie, Roybet-Fould Museum, "Fifteen painters inspired by the doll". 1989 - BIAF La Forga, Barcelona. 1990 - Refectory of the Jacobins, Toulouse. 1992 - "Spring", Hénot Gallery, Enghien-les-Bains. 1994 - "Venice", Hénot Gallery, Enghien-les-Bains. 1995 - SIAC, Strasbourg. 1998 - "Confronted Papers", Vanuxem Gallery, Paris. 1999 - "25 years of Collection", SACEM Salons Salon d'Automne, (member). Living Room Comparisons. Exhibition of Drawing and Painting in Water. National Society of Fine Arts (member). Farman Prize, Marthe Oran Prize, Foreign Press Prize. ENSICA Fair, Toulouse. Versailles Orangery. Works and Museums 1949 - Decorative panel for the Créteil boys' school. 1968 - 1970 - 1978 - 1979 - Works acquired by the State for the National Contemporary Art Fund. 1970 - Work acquired by the City of Paris. 1981 - Work acquired by the City of Paris for the Carnavalet Museum. National Library (lithographs and engravings in the black manner). Private collections Paris, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Sweden, United States, Canada, Venezuela, Japan. Banque Paribas (3 works), SACEM Bibliography Le Tabor et le Sinaï (essays on contemporary art). Michel Tournier, "Ed. Belfond", 1988.