Philippe Cara Costéa (1925-2006) Football

Philippe Cara Costéa (1925-2006) Football Oil on paper mounted on panel 58 x 90 cm Philippe Cara-Costéa Painter and sculptor of compositions and characters, nudes. Born in 1925. Died in 2006. Member of the Salon d'Automne, the Salon of French Artists, National of Fine Arts. In 1947 he left for Tahiti in the footsteps of Gauguin. Gold medal at the Salon of French Artists, Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts, Grand Prix Beaudry Public Collections Museum of Modern Art in Paris, Museum of Chicago National Library of France. Méréville (Essonne) four monumental works. For the church of St Pierre de Méréville, the large six-meter cross carved hollow in an Iroko trunk weighing more than a ton (1970)