Frédéric Vidalens - Oil On Canvas - Hyperrealism - New Objectivity - Chardon Lys

Frédéric Vidalens, born in 1925 in Brive-la-Gaillarde and died in 2004 in Versailles, was a French painter and printmaker who studied under Jean DUPAS at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris between 1944 and 1949.

This is an early work, dating from around 1955–60, a period when Vidalens’s aesthetic was close to that of New Objectivity and the Swiss or German hyperrealist painters. 

Subsequently, his style would align more closely with that of Georges Rohner, adopting an even more refined approach, where the touches of bright color (still present here in the lilies) would fade away, leaving only pastel tones. 
Instantly recognizable, the still lifes of this second period feature everyday objects—tablecloths, napkins, books, bowling pins, eggs, sewing machines—in compositions with perfectly geometric structures.