Roger Bezombes (1913-1994) “in The Wave” 1971 »

Roger BEZOMBES (1913-1994) "Dans la vague" 1971 "Iron (red patina, cast iron medal in tilting iron)/rocking base Signed and numbered 10/75 Height 31.5 x 31 cm Exhibition: Musée de la Monnaie, Paris, 1972, reproduced in the catalogue Reproduced on page 89 of the catalogue Roger Bezombes, born on 17 January 1913 in Paris and died on 9 August 1994 in Ivry-sur-Seine, was a French painter, engraver (lithographer and etcher) and sculptor of the second School of Paris. Based on the Quai Saint-Michel in Paris, Roger Bezombes became a professor at the Académie Julian, rue du Dragon, in 19504. The year 1951 was for him the year of a trip to Greece and the year in which he began his relationship with the work of tapestry3. Roger Bezombes visited Palestine in 1953, Tunisia and Egypt in 1954. He was appointed official painter of the Navy in 1955. Pierre Mazars analyses that "after a period in which we notice the influence of Van Gogh and Braque, particularly in his landscapes of Provence, he came to a more schematic style, with the coloured spots and thicknesses of material taking on more importance than the subject. He even produced composite works, half-watercolours, half-pasted papers, in which he incorporated pieces of newspapers.