Lucien Coutaud (1904-1977) - Oil On Canvas

Very beautiful oil on canvas by Lucien Coutaud (1904 - 1977) representing a surreal landscape Magnificent colors, abstract flowers and the characters reduced to the state of skeletons specific to Lucien Coutaud Work signed lower right and dated 1968 Coutaud attended the multiple manifestations of the avant-gardes, rubbing shoulders with the surrealists without really adhering to the group, devoting himself since 1940 to an art which he himself described as “surreal”. The period of the Second World War will be a period of great depression for the artist, overwhelmed by a disgust with humanity, the characters represented in his paintings lose their flesh, reduced to the state of skeletons, then fragmented and deprived of faces like models or robots, retaining no trace of humanity except the mark of their sexuality. His figurative style evolving towards dreamlike abstraction is close to a surrealism with southern themes and colors. Lucien Coutaud invented Eroticomagia, which is a painting centered on a world, on an individual constantly subject to metamorphosis, but always gendered. Eroticomagia is the carnal and dreamlike fusion of eros and magic, reality and dream. Dimensions without frame: 38x55cm Dimensions with frame: 47x63cm