Jean Fusaro (marseille, 1925) - Bouquet Of Roses

Based in Lyon, Jean Fusaro studied there for three years at the École des Beaux-Arts, then became a professor there around 1970. He participated in numerous group exhibitions, notably in Paris at the Salon d'Automne and at the Salon des Peintres Témoins de their time. He participated in the Menton Biennale in 1951, received the Fénéon prize in 1953 and the City of Marseille prize in 1957. His first personal exhibition took place in Lyon in 1947 and was followed by many others, notably in Lyon and Paris. , including a retrospective in 1977 at the Paul Valéry Museum in Sète, an exhibition at the Melun Museum in 1978 and at Art France in Paris in 1984. Fusaro is an important figure of the Lyon school, with Cottavoz, Couty and others. His lively and sometimes deliberately naive drawing is reminiscent of Dufy. It depicts a wide range of scenes in heavily painted landscapes in a range of very cool colors. His use of pigment is characteristic of contemporary painters of the Lyon school to which Fusaro brings a joyful interpretation.