Portraits By Edgar Melik 1904-1976

Oil on panel measuring 62cm x 45cm plus wooden frame 74cm x 57cm representing (I think) the face of a mother and her son in swaddling clothes signed lower right Edgar Mélik the strange, the mysterious, the mystical, the Master de Cabriès, the hermit of his castle transformed today into his museum Born in 1904 in Paris, it was in Provence that he made his career Coming in the footsteps of Van Gogh and Cézanne, this creator drew on his imaginary world all his symbolic and dreamlike inspiration Artist of character, he established himself in Cabriès, more precisely at the Château which dominates the village, today transformed into the Mélik Museum He will have a tragic end in 1976 Some art critics consider him to be one of the greatest painters of his generation A figurative work at the limit of abstraction drawn from his imagination, from his vision of things revealing a world populated by faces, animals, human forms always at the limit of abstraction. An expressionism which does not leave you indifferent, which touches us deep in our conscience Free delivery to the European Union