Huge Oil On Cardboard - Pol Roux - Orpheus In The Underworld - Tarn - Contemporary Art

Great work of the brilliant Pol Roux Oil on cardboard entitled Orphée Aux Enfers. Fixed on a wooden frame. Work from the early 2000s. 90x120cm Contact me for delivery. Roger Paul Roux known as Pôl Roux was born on 15/11/1926 near Marseille. Very young he drew but life led him to alternate between a lumberjack and shepherd activity in the Alps, where he enjoyed this beautiful nature. Attracted by meditation he became a novice at the Montrieux charterhouse. A free spirit, he joined the resistance during the war then refused to obey orders during his military service in Carthage in Tunisia. Then married and became a teacher in Marseille, where he took courses at the Beaux Arts which awarded him several prizes. He participated in the movements of his time in May 68, then settled in an abandoned charterhouse for a pastoral life far from the world and in sublime landscapes, without ever stopping drawing and painting. His works will be exhibited and appreciated for their mystical power. In the 90s he regularly went to Senegal. He died in December 2023.