Marie-thérèse Bourrat (born In 1938), The Hat, 1970, Watercolor

Marie-Thérèse BOURRAT (born in 1938)
Le Chapeau, 1970
Pencil, Indian ink and watercolor on paper
Signed and dated “1970” lower center
17 x 25 cm Self-taught,

Marie-Thérèse Bourrat exhibited for the first time at the age of seventeen. She received advice from the painter Jean Couty and the support of the Lyon art critic René Déroudille from the end of the 1950s.

Marie-Thérèse Bourrat probes the soul of inanimate objects that populate her intimate sphere to the point of haunting it. Through singular framing, the artist paints solitude, revealing a closed-door universe concentrating the emotions of an entire life. Her hypersensitivity shines through in her painting, which denounces the cracks in existence. His art maintains a close dependence with his life path and this since his most distant childhood memories, offering a raw and moving testimony of his torments and obsessions.

The work that we propose is part of a series of portraits from the 1970s where fragments of faces occupy the entire surface of the canvas or paper, in the same tight framing.

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