Painting Of Blue Thistles In Brignogan By Jean Yves Couliou Lorient 1958 Finistère Brittany

Large painting by the renowned Jean Yves Couliou depicting a large bouquet of blue thistles and located in Brignogan in Finistère and dated 1958.
A beach at Brignogan beach is also called the beach of blue thistles. Beautiful work and very representative of the style of Jean Yves Couliou.
Comes from a Breton estate.
Still has its original American-style frame.
Delivery possible by Chronopost for: France €40
Europe €80
Others €160
* Born in Landerneau, to a father from Moëlan-sur-Mer and a mother from Riec-sur-Bélon, Jean-Yves Couliou spent his childhood near Pont-Aven where his parents were from.
After his secondary studies, he studied for eight years successively at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, the Beaux-Arts in Paris, the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués in Paris and decorative arts in Paris.
He was encouraged by his teachers Maurice Brianchon, Jean Dupas, Raymond Legueult, Roland Oudot, and Roger Bissière.
A prisoner of war for five years in Germany during World War II, he returned to Lorient in 1949 where he became a drawing teacher until his retirement in 1976.
His painting is inspired by naive art and poetic reality, as well as expressionism, non-figurative, lyrical and geometric abstraction.
Living in Guidel, he died on January 8, 1995 in Lorient.
In 1939, he received commissions and sold works to the State. Paris, National Museum of Modern Art. Museums in Belgrade, Glasgow, Vannes, Pont-Aven, Ernée. Amsterdam, Basel, Bern, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Geneva, Guingamp, Lausanne, London, Neuchâtel, New York, Rome, Zurich and numerous collections in Brittany.