Saint Cricq "the Grand Pavoie" Cannes 1960

Robert Saint CRICQ
Format 65x81 “GRAND PAVOIE”Cannes 1960

Robert Saint-Cricq (painter)1924/2020

Trained at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, Robert Saint-Cricq began with oil painting before moving towards collage and assemblage, due to an allergy to pigments. He then developed a singular universe from recycled objects: broken dolls, fragments of wood, worn tools, rusty metals… so many materials charged with memory that he assembles with humor and poetry.

His compositions, often enhanced with painting or drawing, open onto a world that is both intimate and dreamlike, nourished by echoes of childhood. In 1964, he joined the Groupe des Amandiers, then joined the MADI movement initiated by Carmelo Arden-Quin, with whom he participated in several significant group exhibitions in France and internationally.