Rodolphe Caillaux (1904-1989) "fiery Flowers"-basque Country- Signed Oil/canvas 38x46 Cm

Rodolphe CAILLAUX (1904 – 1989) “Ardent Flowers” Oil on canvas signed lower right, titled and countersigned on the back L: 38 cms x H: 46.5 cms Rodolphe Caillaux, born in 1904 in Paris and died in 1989 in Fontenay -lès-Briis, is a French expressionist painter, from the post-war Paris school, he is the representative of an expressionism very representative of the figurative work of the 1950s. Famous for his bouquets of flowers and his colorful landscapes. lively, with strong lines and accentuated shapes, Caillaux appears as a resistance figure to figuration at the end of his life, with his lively palette and his thick layers of oil paint spread with a knife or trowel, such as illustrated by our painting. Familiar with the Basque Country which he often painted, he also created Maurice Ravel's medal for the Monnaie. A street bears his name in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. -hall in one man shows, Rodolphe Caillaux made his debut as a painter at the Salon des Indépendants in 1928, at the same time as Alexander Calder, Otto Freundlich, Jean Hélion, Georges Papazoff and Joaquin Torres Garcia. He entered the Salon d'Automne in 1932. With the war he moved to Pau in 1940. There he helped organize the Salon d'Automne Béarnais. He returned to Paris in 1947. Installed at the Cité Montmartre-aux-artistes at 189, Rue Ordener, Rodolphe Caillaux nevertheless remained close to Pau since he was inducted into the Royal Winery of Jurançon in 1953 with the rank of dignitary. Elected that same year as a member of the Salon des Indépendants Committee, he was its vice-president from 1955 to 1956. From 1957, he took charge of a group at the Salon Comparisons of which he became president following Andrée Bordeaux- Le Pecq. It was as president of the Salon Comparisons that he was named a knight of the Legion of Honor. Rodolphe Caillaux was a member of the Salon d'Automne in 1957 and Honorary President of the Salon Comparisons. A large painting by Rodolphe Caillaux "Basque dancers" is exhibited at the Basque and History Museum of Bayonne;