Jacques Bouyssou (1926-1997): Career On Seine

Jacques BOUYSSOU (1926-1997) Carrière sur Seine, 1966 Original oil on canvas, in perfect condition. Dimensions: 50 x 65 cm (excluding frame) FREE period frame, dimensions with frame: 73 x 86 cm Provenance: - Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris - Galerie Félix Vercel, New York - Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart - Private collection, Paris Tableau sold with invoice and certificate of authenticity. From his childhood, Jacques Bouyssou met artists like Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy, who became his mentors. He also meets Moïse Kisling, Fernand Léger and Ossip Zadkine. Painter of reality, faithful to Honfleur, fascinated by water, he paints beaches, ports, seascapes. His pure and stripped-down world gives way to an infinite and discreet poetry. He is in the lineage of the Great Impressionist Painters of the last century and he gives us this message: “Today, I know that there are things that cannot be learned: the gesture which translates an emotion through the line , volumes and colors. The stronger the emotional shock, the less control stops the gesture… I paint what I see and what I am.” In 1961 he debuted at the Salon de la Marine. In 1987, Bouyssou was named “official painter of the French Navy”. His works are kept at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.