Roger Chapelain-midy (1904-1992) - Oil On Canvas - Still Life

Roger Chapelain-Midy (1904-1992) - Oil on canvas - Still lifeOil on canvas depicting a still life of a bouquet of flowersSignature lower leftRoger Chapelain, known as Roger Chapelain-Midy, is a French painter, lithographer, illustrator and theatre designer.Passionate about the Renaissance, the painting of Poussin and that of the 17th century, he defended a classical tradition, made of measure, in an era which saw the great upheavals of modern painting. He produced still lifes and landscapes.In a late line of symbolism and surrealism, a whole part of his work bears the imprint of his spiritual preoccupations, materialized by the obsessive recurrence of unusual settings and objects such as checkerboard tiles, masks, mannequins and mirrorsVisible at the Galerie Courcelles Antiquités, at 97 rue de Courcelles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.