The Fishermen By Aristide Caillaud

Price: €1800 Style: French school 1950 Condition: Excellent Technique: Oil on canvas Other: Signed lower right Height: 65 cm Width: 50 cm Dimensions with frame: 72/57 cm This article is taken from the book Larousse “Dictionary of painting”. French painter (Moulins, Deux-Sèvres, 1902 – Jaunay-Clan 1990). Berger in his childhood, he came to Paris in 1937 to devote himself to painting, while practicing various trades, including that of butcher. Taken prisoner during the Second World War, he began to draw in a camp. Back in France, he continued to paint, attracting the interest of critics in 1946 and participated in 1949 in Art Brut with Dubuffet. He made a few personal exhibitions in Paris (1950, gal. Stiebel and gal. Barreiro; 1954, gal. Craven) and participated in the Paule Marot et ses amis event at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1953, then executed tapestries for the Goblins (the Village). Attracted by religious art, in 1952 he produced the Triptych of the Virgin for the parish of Jaunay-Clan (Deux-Sèvres). Among his paintings of religious inspiration, let us mention in particular the Entombment (1955), the Miraculous Fishing (1956). The art of this painter is related to that of the naive by its cloisonné drawing, its encyclopedic composition, with imaginary perspectives, and by the richness of its enamel colors applied in fine, clear touches, on dark backgrounds. The subjects are varied, composite and legendary, and are distinguished by a fantastic imagination of great seduction: the Shepherdess (1954), the Route Napoléon (1955), Paris (1956), the Corrida (1957), the Red Helicopter (1957), His work is mainly presented in the coll. go. as well as at the M.N.A.M. in Paris. The Donjon museum in Niort devoted an exhibition to him in 1986.