Nude With Blue Bishop Eglomisé Titled And Signed By Ferdinand Pire

Nude with a blue fool, Eglomisé (oil on glass) titled and signed by Ferdinand PIRE (1943-?) Born in Brussels in 1943. Coming from a family of painters, he was trained by his father Marcel, then at the academies of Brussels and Cape Town. From adolescence, he painted landscapes and scenes of African life, in the Congo and South Africa. Upon his return to Europe, and until 1980, he was a painter of chiaroscuro. He was influenced by his stay in Italy. After a Fauvist period of contemporary intimism and fully aware of his profession as an oil painter, Ferdinand Pire discovered the églomisé, through the work of Floris Jespers, his predecessor in Belgium, who died in 1965. He then set about, out of curiosity at first, then with passion, to rediscover for himself all the secrets and the complex alchemy of this little-known and arduous technique. He gradually achieved total mastery which allowed him, from 1987, to go beyond the technique to reach the highest artistic level, using from then on the glass plate as a support like the canvas for what he had to say, to express. A retrospective of thirty years of painting was dedicated to him in 1989. His work, dreamlike, tinged with expressionism and cubism, depicts timeless, ambiguous characters, bathed in a golden atmosphere. He continues his research on aesthetics, symbolism, as well as on the so-called "iridescent" technique. In April 1999, a retrospective of ten years of creation relating to painting under glass églomisée took place in the prestigious setting of the Brussels City Hall, Grand-Place, presided over by a large honorary and support committee.