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Lot no. 58
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Francis PELLERIN (1915-1998)
Blue-orange geometric composition
Paint on isorel, unsigned
49.5x49.5 cm
Certificate of authenticity dated 23.04.2022 from Haude Pellerin, daughter of the artist
Dating from a sought-after period in his work, our painting corresponds to the studies carried out by the artist in 1957 and 1961, which benefited two sites for monumental works in Rennes:
- The Faculty of Law in 1960
- The Faculty of Science in 1961 (now the Directcio des Services de l'Education Nationale dÎle et Vilaine)
Francis Pellerin is a 'form seeker' and a great painter of geometric abstraction.
From 1939 onwards, Francis Pellerin continued to paint alongside his work as a sculptor. From 1952 to 1962, he painted numerous abstract oil paintings, which were exhibited at the Hautefeuille gallery in Paris in 1962. In 1960, invited by Georges Folmer, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. In 1961, he helped bring the Mesure group[3] to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes. Until 1965, he took part in the group's exhibitions abroad.
During an exhibition at the Salon des réalités nouvelles in 1960, he wrote:
One does not create the path of one's Art according to one's desire; the force that underlies it leads you where it pleases. Initially moved by external nature, I later acknowledged the movement of my inner nature. The result, at present, is a kind of symbiosis between the work and the man. The constant is given by a certain quality of tension. I have no conceptual inspiration. I'm groping and hoping, and that takes a lot of faith. An unpredictable body of work has emerged from the integration of architecture and my world. For more than 20 years, preoccupied by the polychromy of my sculpture, I have been painting and I have become, by logical sequence, Abstract, and Geometrical Abstract through architectural relationships; Neither painting, nor sculpture completely fulfil me. As a result, I have found a place that I call "spatial painting" or "sculpto-painting", a Structure that builds itself by unfolding and, with the help of colour, takes possession of space and plays with it, statically and kinetically*.
In 1978, he left teaching to devote himself fully to new artistic research in the wake of geometric abstraction, with collages and polychrome wooden sculptures. At the same time, he created new monumental works: mural frescoes, claustras and granite steles. He also exhibits in cultural centres and galleries.
A spirit of research combined with a great capacity for work leads him to unforeseen and increasingly refined designs, which are removed from the traditional reference points of space and transport us into "otherworldly spaces", into a state of weightlessness where we would like to remain.
Francis Pellerin's work is represented in major private collections in France and abroad, and can be found in the permanent collections of many museums.
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