Michel Loeb, French Naive, Fauvist Oil on Panel Painting "Le Petit Clocher" Michel Loeb, c. 20th century

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Michel Loeb (French, 1931- ) "Le Petit Clocher" Oil on Panel Painting Frame: 22.5" X 26" Image: 14.5" X 17.75" … Read more Michel Loeb (French, 1931- ) "Le Petit Clocher" Oil on Panel Painting Frame: 22.5" X 26" Image: 14.5" X 17.75" Hand signed bottom left Oil on board Fauve painting of a French countryside scene with trees, farmers and houses. Michel Loeb, 1930- painter, was born in Saint-Cloud. Lives and works in Luberon. Art naïf. Pointillist, Fauvist, Surrealist, Dadai artist, unclassifiable, highly original, unique art. His works radiate a light, a love of colors, of the absurd, of the funny, of the tender and of the poetic. French Naive art. Galerie Felix Vercel showed his work. Whether in color or black & white, in painting, sculpture or a lithograph print, the world of Michel Loeb is a poetic, joyful and exuberant paradise, where humor and fantasy are never far away. Extravagant works that sparkle like their iconoclastic author whose titles often say a lot. Each work is executed with great attention to detail, often under the magnifying glass, by this former jeweler, including its very large formats. Michel Loeb has drawn parallels to his masters of painting, facetious but always majestic winks and the desire for paintings in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Edward Hopper, Hokusai. Michel Loeb is a painter born in Saint-Cloud. He first trained as a jeweler and diamond dealer like his father and painted as an amateur. He devoted himself to painting from 1970, after his meeting with the famous art dealer Félix Vercel, who then took him under contract and exhibited him in Paris, New York and Tokyo. Galerie Felix Vercel in Paris (Avenue Matignon) and New York (Madison Avenue) showed artists as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Armand Guillaumin, Maurice Utrillo and Claude Venard. He is part of School of Paris artists that included Marcel Cosson, Jean Jansem, Claude Salomon, Michel Kouliche, Bernard Buffet, Bernard Lorjou, Jean Dufy, and others. Naive art was then in fashion and his work enjoyed great success; he has prepared no less than one exhibition per year since this period. Recently he had the opportunity to present his work in Provence, Oslo or Shanghai. Since 1988, he has settled in Oppède, in the Luberon, among vineyards, scrubland and olive groves where he draws his inspiration. His work is simimilar in its childish naive appeal and is reminiscent of Henri Maik and Gustavo Novoa. In the French tradition of Séraphine de Senlis, Ferdinand Cheval, Henri Rousseau, Louis Vivin, Camille Bombois, Fernande Grossin, Jules Lefranc, Émile Blondel and René Rimbert. Since 1993, Michel Loeb has been represented in the south of France by the Pascal Lainé gallery. Personal exhibitions 1963: Galerie Dauphine, Paris , Drapeau de la France 1965: Fernand Depas Gallery, Paris 1967: Gallery 93, Paris 1970-1988: Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris , France (alternating with New York ( Drapeau des États-Unis United States )Madison Avenue, 16 exhibitions) 1973: Group exhibition, Hôtel Saint-Georges, Beirut , Drapeau du Liban Lebanon 1977: Aleph Gallery, Paris, France 1980: Harris Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles 1982: K. Levinston Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 1985: Galerie Weber, Geneva , Drapeau de la Suisse 1987: Galerie Daniel Varenne, Gstaad, Switzerland 1989: Laburthe Gallery, Paris, France 1990: Klein-Roncari Gallery, Paris 1990: Nissho Iwai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1991: Galerie 1900/2000 Chicago, “around Duchamp” 1991: Gallery 5, Bonnieux , France 1992: Galerie Klein-Roncari, Paris , France 1992: Hôtel de Rochegude , Avignon , France 1993: Pascal Lainé Gallery, Gordes , France 1994: Nathalie Seroussi Gallery, Paris , France 1994: Fiac , Paris , France 1995: Campredon Museum, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue , 1995: You said bazaar , Galerie Pascal Lainé, Gordes , 1996: Nathalie Seroussi Gallery, Paris , France 1997: Gallery 1900/2000, Chicago 1997: Maison Biehn, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue , France 1997: Fiac, Paris, France Galerie Daniel Varenne, 1998: Tribute to Félix Vercel, Paris, France 1998: Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva 1999: Zannetacci Gallery, Geneva 2000: Galerie Artema, Brussels, Belgium 2001: Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris 2003: Gérard Guerre Gallery, Avignon , France 2005: Darga & Lansberg Gallery, Paris, France 2005: Chart Gallery, Paris , France 2006-2007: Maison René Char, Campredon Museum L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue , France 2008: Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris , France 2008: Pascal Lainé Gallery, Ménerbes , France 2010: Loebjet found Galerie Pascal Lainé, Ménerbes , 2011: A little safari Galerie Pascal Lainé, Ménerbes , 2012: baroque loebjet Galerie Yu, Paris , France 2012: Dumonteil Gallery, Shanghai , Drapeau de la République populaire de Chine China 2013: This is not Galerie Pascal Lainé, Ménerbes , 2014: Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris , France 2015: Small jets of childish works Pascal Lainé Gallery 2016: Passeurs de rêve , Return of Travel Gallery, L'Isle sur la Sorgue, France 2017: When art gets mixed up, Galerie Pascal Lainé See less