Jean-pierre Ceytaire (né En 1946) - "couple"

Painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Large oil on canvas. Signed and dated 87 upper right.Dimensions: 130 x 87 cm.BIOGRAPHY: Born in Paris in 1946, Jean-Pierre Ceytaire is a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor.After a childhood on the Butte Montmartre, he was a student at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris from 1962 to 1965. His lack of commitment to school led to his exclusion. He continued his studies at the École Danhier from 1966 to 1968, leading to a diploma in physiotherapy, a profession he practiced for 15 years.He discovered painting during his military service. His choice of painting was confirmed with a first solo exhibition in Brussels in 1973.He quickly turned his art towards religious themes and succeeded in creating a highly personal figurative expression. It wasin 1981, after settling in Carrières-sur-Seine (78), on thebanks of the Seine, and after a brief abstract period, that the seriesof paintings "The Inhabited Jacket" and "The Uninhabited Jacket" marked areturn to a figurative style of his own, ("From time to time,the figures are in relief in wood or cardboard, but the technique ofpainting never strays from perfection"), freely distorting beings and things in an "avidity for physical metamorphoses" and, following Egon Schiele, expressing the fantasmatic or fetishistic part of the unconscious: "figurations of the spirit that are partially surrealist or symbolist," observesJean-Paul Gavard-Perret, "where Ceytaire explores themes that are dear to him: eroticism, but also the mysteries of the unconscious, "The disturbing strangeness of beings, like the reification of the human, the transfiguration of the imagination and dreams, the transport of love"In 1986, Jean-Pierre Ceytaire abandoned his profession as a physiotherapist to devote himself entirely to painting.