Jean-marie Euzet (1905-1980) Musical Composition C.1948/50. New Realities, Valensi...

Rare and superb musical composition by Jean-Marie Euzet, circa 1948/1955, gouache signed lower left. Format of the gouache alone without the margin 16.5x24cm or 36x44cm frame included. It is therefore a magnificent abstract/musicalist composition by Jean-Maris Euzet, here he chooses gouache to create it. Faithful to his conceptions and his style, Euzet forms a geometric background a bit in the manner of a Poliakoff or a Joseph Lacasse, on top of which he draws like arabesques and abstract shapes, extremely typical of his work; the palette he chooses here is very rich in colors, ranging from blues, gray and black, subtly enhanced by yellows, greens or oranges. So most probably made at the beginning of the 1950s, the period when Euzet reached his mature period, in fact he had moved to abstraction 15 years earlier, because before 1935 he practiced figurative Fauve painting, very influenced by his master Charles Bichet, Limougeaud painter whom I no longer present; but Euzet will find his way in abstract painting, this time influenced by his friend Henri Valensi (see the work that I propose in another announcement). During his training years, the musical painter Jean-Marie EUZET (Sète, 1905 - Limoges, 1980) favored both the path of teaching music and that of the visual arts. After studying at the National School of Decorative Arts, he learned the violin at the Limoges Music Conservatory and took musicology courses at the Sorbonne as a free listener. Until the mid-1930s, his painting was deeply rooted in figuration, marked in turn by impressionism, fauvism and then cubism. Thanks to the painter Louis Alexandre BAUDON, he made the decisive meeting with VALENSI in 1934 (I am also offering a work by this great artist, see in my other advertisements). Becoming very close to the latter, EUZET was introduced into the musical group and he established friendships with Louise JANIN and Marcel LEMPEREUR-HAUT. He also became close to artists outside the group, such as Otto FREUNDLICH and Jeanne KOSNICK-KLOSS. After the war, EUZET was contacted by VALENSI who offered to participate in the first Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Exhibitor since 1941 in the tapestry renovation movement, he decided to present a tapestry, a proposal which was refused because the committee did not accept this type of work. Not at all discouraged, the following year, EUZET, passing through Paris, presented its application again for the show: "I will barely manage to participate in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles which opens on July 18. I had to run quite a bit for this, and it is at HERBIN (abstractor 100/100) that I completed the formalities for this participation, a show which will certainly be very interesting. I will produce four paintings there which I will send as soon as I arrive. The purely abstract works of this period are significantly titled Composition, whereas previously their titles referred to the state of mind in which they were conceived. Showing the unfolding of geometric shapes seemingly in constant metamorphosis, their frank and contrasting chromatism clearly distinguishes them from the dark and uniform background. At the beginning of the 1950s, EUZET evolved towards a more geometric abstraction sometimes tending towards the decorative, as shown in Composition n° 17. The pictorial field is occupied by a quantity of colored geometric shapes with irregular cuts, including convolutions and multiple twists and turns. , seeming to obey syncopated rhythms, create a complex and lively space. The colors, of great diversity (yellow, pink, green, orange, red, purple, ocher, gray), betray a concern for balance in their complementarity. Laid in vigorous flat areas, without material effect, they are particularly lively and luminous. What emerges from this work is a form of frenetic and exalted lyricism which testifies to the creative power of this artist with a passionate and sensitive temperament. Jean-Marie Euzet also practiced enameling, just like his wife Juliette and they also worked at Camille Tharaud in Limoges where Jean-Marie created sumptuous decorations, unfortunately extremely rare on the market today... This gouache is in very good original condition, just a very slight imperfection at the top to the right, but that's all and imperceptible. Delivered in a modern black frame which has a small accident at the top to the right Work guaranteed authentic PS: I am offering another work by Euzet, go see this other ad.