Jacques Goupil (1934-2021): Place Saint Médard

Jacques GOUPIL (1934-2021) Place Saint Médard Oil on panel Dimensions: 70 x 80 cm Signed lower right. Titled and signed on the back In good condition. Provenance: Private collection, Paris Painting sold with invoice and certificate of authenticity. Possibility of shipping in France and abroad. This French painter born on December 25, 1934, is trained in graphic arts at the technical college of Estienne, in engraving, painting and tapestry creation. Silver-gilt medal of Arts, Sciences and Letters, familiar with the Parisian Salons of Independents, French Artists, National des Beaux-Arts. Permanently in around ten French galleries, his works have been acquired by collectors around the world (Europe, Japan, Canada, United States, Mexico). His artistic production has two faces: the wise and academic one of the painter of the streets of Paris and Venice, of landscapes and seasides with wild grasses. And the one that interests us here seems to have emerged from the depths of his dreams or twilight visions: an almost fauvist palette (Tyrian roses, Prussian blues straight out of the tube) of moving, twisting forms, represent animals and humans with an expressionist intensity. The forces of nature are expressed with a savagery, an apparent clumsiness that are akin to art brut.