Lorjou Bernard 3 Lithographies Signées Au Crayon Num/80 3 Handsigned Lithographs

  
3 Original lithographs, hand-signed and hand-numbered (/80) in pencil by the artist. Conditions: see photographs; excellent; never framed. Paper sizes: 56.5x76 cm; image sizes: 40x55 cm. And several others, one of the most quoted and well-known French painters of the time. Bernard Lorjou is the third child of Joseph and Rose-Amélina, also known as Clotilde Lorjou, his older siblings being Odette and Robert who died at 19 from tuberculosis. Ending a turbulent and unsuccessful schooling at thirteen, briefly an apprentice carpenter but aspiring to become a painter, Bernard Lorjou around 1924 leaves. Where, living poorly - he briefly worked as a messenger boy for a printer - he discovers the work of Edouard Manet. While frequenting the anarchists of. Shortly after, in 1925, he became an apprentice colorist in the drawing workshop. He became a designer and silk drawer. Later, his creations in this field dressed celebrities like.

He also met Yvonne Motet, his future partner, with whom he married in 1968, a few weeks before her death from leukemia. The anti-abstract movement "Man as a witness of his time". The first exhibition of the group took place in Paris in 1948.

The same year, he shared with. The latter participated in the second exhibition of the Witness Man in 1949. The third and final one took place in November 1962 with only. In 1953, he met Domenica Walter-Guillaume.

Who introduced him to the art dealer. Lorjou will describe him in an open letter to the President of the Republic. "idiot, stateless, empty, degenerate art. Becoming, by the will of your Minister of Culture, the official French ART.

In 1960, he signed another open letter in support of the painter. And who thanked him for his presence at the opening of.

At the Galliera Museum on October 14, 1970. A irascible and whimsical character, Lorjou circulated a petition in 1977 for the defense of French Art and against the. Which he does not hesitate to call. Because it represents for him this official art that he particularly abhors. With a figurative dreamlike style, he is often considered by critics as a.

Self-taught artist, he defines himself as "the black sheep" of museum curators. In the movement of the. Salon de la Jeune Peinture. Salon of painters witness of their time. He spent the last years of his life in. On Monday, January 27, 1986, we read on the front page of the newspaper. "Bernard Lorjou, who suffered from severe asthma attacks, died on Sunday morning at his home in Saint-Denis-sur-Loire, of a heart attack. He was seventy-seven years old".