Thierry Bosquet (1937). Project For The Opera "cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart". 1974/75.

Gilded wood frame (usual wear). Frame dimensions: 53 x 73 cm. Dimensions of the gouache: 50 x 70 cm.
Gouache on blue paper, signed, titled and dated on the back.
Thierry Bosquet
Belgian painter, costume designer, model maker, fresco artist and scenographer. Born in 1937. He is the grandson of Corneil de Thoran, director of “La Monnaie” at the Théâtre Royal (Brussels Opera), and the son of Emile Bosquet, pianist. He studied scenography at the La Cambre Institute of Architecture and Decorative Art, the former name of the La Cambre school in Brussels, where he finished with the highest distinction. At the age of 22, he was hired as a freelancer at La Monnaie, where he became the main decorator and costume designer for thirty years. For 20 years, he was the privileged collaborator of Maurice Béjart, for whom he designed sets and costumes. He has created sets and costumes in almost all the major opera houses in the world: Lebanon (Baalbek Festival), Italy (Palermo, Rome, Scala di Milano), Germany (Munich Opera, Cologne and Stuttgart), United States ( San Francisco, New York). York), Canada (Toronto), France (Garnier, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes and Toulouse), Russia (Saint Petersburg), Austria (Vienna and Innsbruck), Switzerland (Geneva and Zurich). He is also renowned for his murals and paintings, across Belgium, France and Morocco. In 2010, following the creation of a book illustrating life in the great park of Versailles under the Sun King Louis XIV, he was decorated by the French Ministry of Culture with the title of “Knight of Arts and Letters”. In tribute to all of his work, he received the title of Knight in 2014 by His Majesty the King of the Belgians