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Camille Bryen<\/h2>\n

Composition, 1963<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Oil on canvas
\n<\/span>Signed and dated lower left,
\n<\/span>Counter-signed, dated, and numbered on the back
\nDimensions: 100 x 81 cm, with frame: 112 x 94 cm<\/h6>\n
Bibliography <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n
\u2022 Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9\u2014Jacqueline Boutet-Loyer (No. 352, reproduced)<\/h6>\n
\u2022 Lev\u00eaque 1970, reprinted<\/h6>\n
Exhibitions: <\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n
<\/span> <\/span>\u2022 Tokyo, 1966<\/h6>\n
<\/span>\u2022 Le Havre 1970, No. 21<\/h6>\n
<\/span>\u2022 C.N.A.C. 1971, p. 8, reprinted on p. 34, right column <\/h6>\n
<\/span>\u2022 Geneva 1975, No. 2<\/h6>\n
<\/span>\u2022 Nice 1983<\/h6>\n
Price: 33,000 euros<\/h6>\n
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Biography<\/span><\/h4>\n

Camille Bryen is a poet, poet of signs, of words, of color. He was one of the initiators of lyrical abstraction. Called the “father of tachisme”, he wanted to dissolve form in favor of non-form. <\/p>\n

A poet associated with the Dadaist movement, it was only after the war that he gave free rein to his graphic activity.<\/p>\n

At the beginning his painting is violent in colors then from the 60s, his language <\/span>becomes more subtle. The pale, muted colors are applied in subtle strokes\u2014a mosaic of luminous, colorful touches whose balance is disrupted by the projection of fragmented lines. <\/p>\n

There’s a contradiction between his pictorial work – suave, delicate, measured abstraction – and his protest intentions and statements.<\/p>\n

In 1926, he came to Paris. It is said that it was Andr\u00e9 Breton on his return from a surrealist congress who brought him back in his luggage. It was as a poet that he joined the group of surrealists and the initiated circles of Saint Germain des Pr\u00e9s and Montparnasse. <\/p>\n

He became acquainted with Wols and played an active role in the discovery of automatic expressions. He sought to develop an autonomous language no longer controlled by rational thought but by the psyche and the will, following the example of the Dada movement in making a clean break from all ideological and aesthetic constraints. <\/p>\n

He exhibited at the Salon des “Surind\u00e9pendants” from 35 to 38. In 1947, he and Matthieu organized exhibitions featuring Arp, Atlan, Hartung, Wols, Picabia… <\/p>\n

He exhibited at the Salons des R\u00e9alit\u00e9s Nouvelles and subsequently exhibited regularly at the Salon de Mai.<\/p>\n

Four one-man shows were held in Paris from 1952 to 1956, followed by Milan and Vienna.<\/p>\n

Major retrospectives of his work took place at the Mus\u00e9e du Havre in 1972, at the Mus\u00e9e d’Art Moderne in Paris in 1973 and finally at <\/span>1997 at the Mus\u00e9e
\nin Nantes, his hometown.<\/p>\n

It is present in all major events in France and abroad.<\/p>\n

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Museums<\/h4>\n

\u2022 In Paris: National Museum of Modern Art; Center Pompidou, contemporary museum Vitry sur Seine. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 In France: Nantes, Le Havre, Lyon, Dunkirk, Dijon, Grenoble, Rouen, Lille, Marseille, Rennes, Saint-\u00c9tienne, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tourcoing, Tournus.<\/p>\n

– Internationally: <\/span><\/p>\n

New York (Museum of Modern Art), <\/span><\/p>\n

Oslo (Nasjonasgal), <\/span><\/p>\n

Rome (National Gallery of Modern Art), <\/span><\/p>\n

Jerusalem, <\/span><\/p>\n

Locarno, Basel<\/p>\n

Lisbon (Gubelkian Foundation), <\/span><\/p>\n

Basel (Art Museum), <\/span><\/p>\n

Skopje, Wiesbaden.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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