Ink Portrait By Louis Pons 1927-2021

Beautiful and large ink drawing on paper measuring 66cm x 46cm plus wooden frame 85cm x 65cm representing a portrait of a man signed, dated and dedicated at the top left Sincerely Louis PONS Sillans la Cascade October 1959 This would be the portrait of Mr Dupuy who was a friend and patron of Louis Pons Louis Pons, born April 30, 1927 in Marseille and died in the same city on January 12, 2021, is a French visual artist. After primary studies in Marseille, at the Chartreux school, Louis Pons learned the trade of adjuster at the Endoume trade school, still in Marseille, but did not practice it. A press cartoonist at the Liberation, in newspapers issued from the Resistance, he was also, briefly, an accountant, farm worker, grape harvester, house painter... In 1948-1949, he spent a year and a half in a sanatorium. Sick, he lived in the countryside in different places in the south of France: Montfroc, Simiane-la-Rotonde, Vence, Le Piole, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Aix-en-Provence, Antibes, Sillans-la-Cascade. He discovered the work of Joë Bousquet, the drawings of Louis Soutter, the aphorisms of Lichtenberg. He made around 2,000 drawings in Indian ink during this period, he painted and acquired an engraver's press. But suffering from visual problems, he was forced to give up drawing. In 1959, he composed his first assemblages, a kind of three-dimensional collage, or relief paintings made of recycled objects and materials. His work has been labeled "surrealism" or "art brut". He certainly drew on it, but Louis Pons is an art singular; through his boxes, his reliquaries, his collages, his assemblages, he tirelessly pursues a poetic ethnology that is his own. Gilles Plazy says of him that he is a "gatherer of debris who composes original works with worn things", works that can be found morbid but which are always full of oddities, incongruities, surprises and sometimes even humor. free shipping for the European Union 250 €uros for International