Alfred Courmes Original Lithography Signed Surrealism Mythology Panic Art

Signed in pencil on the bottom right. Print on velin size 80 x 59 cm good condition - small visible time foxers --------------------------------- transport is offered. After high school at monaco. His father, a naval officer, encouraged him in his desire to be a painter.

Of which he will be the only disciple, curvature settles in betting in 1925, and exposes himself to the living room of the independents. And at the fall salon. He created cubist canvases: still life cubist with brush, in 1921, painted portraits like that of peggy guggenheim. He moved to ostende the following year and became acquainted with ensor. At the same time, he permeates van eyck's painting.

Visiting the museums of bugs, of gand. In 1929, he painted the wounded man in tribute to roger de la fresnaye. This confrontation between classicism and this surrealist and expressionist vision will be permanent references for Courmes. Nicknamed the angel of bad taste by his detractors, he often diverts in his paintings mythological themes sphinge.

For humorous or sexual purposes, sometimes clearly homoerotic. It is not uncommon for modern objects (bicycles, dumbbells) or contemporary clothing (bass of silk, shorts, sailors' clothes) to be associated with ancient or medieval worlds. He also borrows from the imagery of advertisements of his girly time and logo of the Menier chocolates. Packs of laundry, camembert labels.

And to the photography of sensational newspapers (blood murders, criminals, detachments of military personnel) to arouse cunning or blasphemous anachronisms. In 1930, he settled in Paris and in 1936 received the paul guillaume prize. For Saint Sebastian, a typical example of his style. The painting brocards the traditional Christian iconography by representing the saint under the features of a sailor and using references to contemporary advertising: the little girl of the chocolates menier gropes the genitals of the saint attached to a tree, while planting an arrow in his flank; the whole is girded by the blue circle of a brand of camembert that gives information about the painter and his canvas.

This success allowed him to obtain an order in 1937, the touch for the pavilion of the soap factory at the international betting exhibition. Minister of National Education proposes to him the wall decoration of the dining room of the French Embassy in Ottawa. In Canada and in the company of other artists: one hundred and twenty square metres painted with wax, the theme of which will be the happy france. That will require two years of work and end on the eve of the Second World War. It is signed and dated July 21, 1939, 3 a. In 1946, he participated in the surrealistic exhibition of lille with magritte. And his friend's freaking out.

From 1957, he exhibited regularly at the May show. And in 1971 during the exhibition the others organized by yves hamon with bordeaux. Courmes was recognized as a precursor of a generation of young painters who exhibited with him, at the National Gallery of the Grand Palais in 1972 in the exhibition 12 years of contemporary art, and received the panic prize. He will be present at the exhibition daily mythologies at the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris. He was named Knight of the Legion of Honour.

In 1991, he lived and painted until his death on 8 January 1993. He's buried in catillon-en-die. 1965, bienniale de São paulo. 1977, retrospective, gallery jean briance, bets. 1984, writing in painting, cnac, nice.

1989 retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts of Poitiers. 1989 retrospective, Saint-Roch museum in issoudun. 1989, retrospective, musée des beaux-arts de roubaix. 1998, Realistics of the 1920s, museum-gallery of the seita.

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type: lithography
characteristics: signed
period: xxeme and contemporary
genre: surrealism
theme: character
support: on paper