Pascal Magis (1955-2011) Blue Triptych - 1998

Pascal MAGIS
(Aurillac 1955 - Meyrals 2011)
Blue triptych - 1998
Oil on canvas
H. 150 cm; L. 250 cm (2 panels of 50 cm wide, and the central panel of 150 cm wide)
Signed lower right of the central panel

Provenance: Private collection, Île de France

Pascal Magis was born in 1955 in Aurillac in Cantal , he grew up in the Périgord Noir, in the small village of Meyrals. This town has also become an essential place for lovers of contemporary art, several galleries are located there, including Magis' workshop, kept open by his niece. A graduate of Fine Arts, he specialized in the field of tapestry and became a cardboard maker and weaver. It was from 1988 that he devoted himself exclusively to painting, his favorite field. Magis' work is to be placed in the movement of “lyrical abstraction”. Generally working on large formats, he casts broad movements on his canvases bringing shapes and stains, sometimes drips, in a very mastered gestural writing. Its palette is singing, bright colors rub shoulders with deep hues, broken pieces contrast with immaculate whites. Generous and passionate, Pascal Magis, a prolific and internationally recognized artist, died at the end of 2011, leaving behind many major works in abstract art, far from the figurative currents of artists from Périgord.