Émile Lafamé (1934-2017). l'Abeille (the Bee), 1967. Oil On Canvas, Signed And Dated.

Émile LAFAMÉ (Émile BOGAERT, dit) (1934-2017)
L'Abeille (The Bee), 1967
Oil on canvas, signed and dated upper right, titled and dated on the back
H. 120 cm - W. 60 cm

Good condition

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Émile Lafamé (Émile Bogaert, dit) was born in Hazebrouck in the North in 1934.

His artistic beginnings are extraordinary. Fleeing the constraint of the heavy family atmosphere, he "went up" to Paris, aged 18, with the fierce desire to be a painter. In the heart of Montmartre bohemia, a providential meeting with Pablo Picasso convinced him of the need to learn, in order to master his ardor and his talent. It is from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lille that he received the famous nickname of The hungry, which he would choose a few years later as his artist's name. The students drawing in charcoal, they blurred their features with the help of breadcrumbs, which Émile, voracious, devoured the crusts left on the tables. His training completed at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and at the Beaux Arts in Paris, it is in this last city that he really settled in 1962, the year of his marriage to Geneviève. Alternating exhibitions in galleries (Katia Granoff) and in major Parisian salons (French Artists, Independents ...) her painting never ceases to evolve.

Expressionist in the 1950s, his manner became more abstract and gave pride of place to large colored areas, a bit like Charles Lapicque, at the end of the following decade. His varied subjects testify to a great joy in painting, while having the will to be part of a social approach of the time, well in the spirit of Painters witnesses of their time.

The colors soften at the turning points of the 1980s when the artist seems to approach a more serene and internalized approach, while maintaining this inextinguishable will to exist and to speak as a painter, which is corroborated by the extraordinary nickname he has adopted. .

Text by Damien Voutay

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