Bathers By Alphonse Layaz, Swiss Poet And Painter

Alphonse LAYAZ (born in 1940)

The Bathers
Oil on canvas signed lower right and dated (19)94
Framed
Provenance: Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne

Size (canvas): 27 x 35 cm
Size (frame): 35 x 46 cm

Journalist, painter and poet, "Alphonse Layaz, man of words, man of words, discovered in painting a new way of expressing reality and and the imaginary.
Born in 1940 in the Broye region of Fribourg, he is fond of modest characters, children playing on a powdery road, a drunkard sitting in front of a glass, a young girl dreaming at her window. A passion for simple people, those whose story remains hidden.
Alphonse Layaz's painting seeks to capture bodies and the emotions aroused by gestures. A "state of poetry" says the artist. The woman is often at the centre of the theme. Odalisque, mixed race woman in a colourful dress, Cézanne bathing girl, mother with child, she circulates in the work and reveals herself in multiple roles.
Another feminine element is the pictorial style which, abundant, with warm and worked colours, gives birth to forms and characters, landscapes and still lifes from its unctuous suppleness. A way that gives life, that engenders but that can imprison beings and strike them with a tragic destiny. tragic fate. - Véronique Mauron