Michel Uhlrich (1937-2016) - Clowns And Harlequins At The Circus - Dated 1960 - Oil On Cardboard

Very beautiful oil on cardboard signed by Michel Uhlrich (1937-2016), representing clowns and harlequins in the circus. This is an early work by the French painter, the latter was born in 1937. At the bottom right, there is also a shipment probably to one of his friends.

Trained at the School of Fine Arts in Saint-Étienne from 1952 to 1955, Michel Uhlrich, after a few promising exhibitions, left his hometown in 1959 to “go up” to Paris. The exhibitions follow one another in particular at the Bernheim Jeune Gallery but also in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland and the United States where Uhlrich has fervent collectors.

In 1964, the painter met the filmmaker René Clair who wrote him this dedication in the form of an injunction: "...I also hope that you will continue your journey without worrying about the conformisms and non-conformisms that one finds in the same radius of the Prisunic of inspiration”. Michel Uhlrich chose in 1973 to settle in Lagnes in the Vaucluse. Michel Uhlrich died in 2016.