School Of Paris, Vienna, Paris, Nice, Gouache On Cardboard By Sylvain Vigny (1903-1970)

Groups of walking women. Beautiful gouache on cardboard signed lower left. Work in good condition (note some waterstains) Format 50 X 65 cm Sylvain Vigny is a French painter born in Vienna (Austria) in 1903. He arrived in France in 1929 and, after having known an adventurous life in Vienna and Paris, he discovered Nice in 1934 and settled there. He will be a regular at the Romanin Art Gallery opened by Jean Moulin. Exhibits in New York, Paris, Nice, Geneva. The city of Nice organized a retrospective of his work in 1969. Critical reception: “Painting was for Vigny an act of fury. » - Jean Cassou « A carnival universe where the tragic mixes with the burlesque, where, as with Goya, reality rubs shoulders with the fantastic. This visionary and romantic expressionist, whose violent writing recalls that of Daumier, is haunted, fascinated by the face. » - Gérald Schurr « Strange autodidact, colorful, earthy and Rabelaisian, tortured, skinned lively and warm, who arrived in France at 26 and settled in Nice five years later. His universe is peopled with ghosts: a dark expressionism, a painting that has nothing pleasant about it but which carries within it a tragic and authentic brutality, a kind of noble anxiety tinged with mysticism. " - Gérald Schurr "His painting is brutal, but warm, restless and chaotic, the decoration of the characters, the nostalgia for seigneurial or bourgeois hairstyles, make one think of Spain, Venetian festivals, the Belle Époque, etc. The world according to Vigny is a tragic and fantastic spectacle. - Benezit Dictionary