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Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 79

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Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 79
Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) Untitled (Les Taureaux series), before 1952 Charcoal and ink wash drawing heightened with white gouache on pink paper. Pinholes in the corners. 33 x 52.5 cm Provenance: Daniel Cordier collection, Paris Exhibition: Galerie Ferloni, Fine art, Paris, 2024, Jean Criton and Bernard Réquichot, ex aequo Bibliography: Roland Barthes, ..., op. cit. described on page 193 (cat. rais. 35) and reproduced on page 41. The set of drawings we present, from the collection of Daniel Cordier, is essential to understanding the rich, complex and meteoric career of Bernard Requichot. meteoric career of Bernard Requichot. Educated in the Catholic school system, his first creations were of a religious nature, a genesis that was to leave a lasting mark on him. Reliquaires of the second half of the 1950s). From the late 1940s, he attended a number of academies (Grande Chaumière, Charpentier, Atelier d'Art Sacré...) as well as attending the Beaux-Arts. His charcoal studies from this period, nudes and animals, emphasize a systematization of planes under the friendly influence of Jacques Villon, culminating in a fluid, abstract practice from 1956, materialized by spirals by spirals, those non-meaning writings. An eternal worrier, the man who knew "above all that you should only say what you love to those you love..." chose to commit suicide at the age of 32, on December 4, 1961, two days before his third exhibition at the Galerie Daniel Cordier.
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