André Lemaitre (1909-1995): Nude From Back

André LEMAITRE (1909-1995) Nude from behind, 1980 Oil on canvas Dimensions of the painting: 73 x 60 cm Signed and dated lower right Painting in very good condition. Golden frame offered. Dimensions with frame: 92 x 78 cm Provenance: - Galerie Tuffier, Les Andelys, - Private collection, Normandy Sold with invoice and certificate of authenticity. Fast and careful shipping with insurance. Through his paintings, the viewer apprehends a beautiful and intense local breath, that of the Pays d'Auge and its immediate surroundings. Alain Tapié notes about him: “Normandy is his locality, but we do not believe that he remains a prisoner of it. He subjects her to perpetual interrogation. » (Extract from the catalog of the 1992 exhibition, at the Musée des BeauxArts in Caen). A tireless worker, André Lemaitre followed a solitary and secret path, and traced far from fashions, critics and cities, the contours of a vigorous and powerful work, landscapes and still lifes, portraits and bouquets, nudes and rivers, all his His paintings speak of the stubborn quest of a man firmly anchored in reality, in this Norman land where we sink, but where dreams cling to the gallop of the clouds. If the sun sometimes stops at the bend of a bouquet, illuminating a body or a face, it is in a universe dominated by grays and greens that André Lemaitre has displayed his talent, and a fervent melancholy like a character by Maupassant. René Garrec