Roger Bravard (1923 – 2015) “espelette In The Basque Country”, Signed Oil On Canvas (93), 65x50

Roger BRAVARD (1923 – 2015) “View of Espelette” Oil on canvas signed lower left (dated 1993) L: 65 cm x H: 50 cm Biography of Roger BRAVARD: Born in Malintrat (Puy de Dôme), Roger Bravard studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon before becoming a professor at the Ecole des Arts Appliqués in Paris. From 1948, he was part of the emerging Lyon artistic movement: Sanzism. through the debates around abstraction, many artists come together, claim their freedom to paint and refuse the "ism" movements. Bravard will always defend an independent art, free from all influence. He discovered the Basque Country, where it was born. his wife, and settled in Espelette in the early 1980s. He devoted the rest of his life to painting the diversity of this country which enchanted him and offered him the best of itself. The work of Bravard, in. a shimmer of color and light, takes us through the Basque Country from the Pyrenees to the ocean, from towns to villages, from dances to games of pelota, back from fishing to summer beaches...