Nicolas Manev "the Village Of Ascetics"

Nicolas Manev. Pencil drawing (paper) on a pastel-prepared background "the village of ascetics" signed lower right Manev. French school. 48.5 X 63.4 cm at sight. Nicolas Manev (1940-2018) was born in Bulgaria. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He graduated in 1967. From then on, he regularly participated in the Salon d'Automne. Many international museums as well as private collectors own his works. With a skillful economy of means, the artist creates an atypical work where nature takes over from men who are absent from the creative imagination. With sparing pencil strokes, Manev magnifies the surrounding aridity whose power seems to push the few scattered houses into their last entrenchments, here, a placid inlet of the sea and solid infertile rocks. Silvered and patinated wooden frame of the time. Good condition. 580 euros.