Andrew Roland Brudieux - Saint Moreil Tree - Pencil Drawing - 1960s

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Arbre à Saint Moreil is a original pencil drawing on paper, realized around 1960s by the French artist André Roland … Read more Arbre à Saint Moreil is a original pencil drawing on paper, realized around 1960s by the French artist André Roland Brudieux (1921-1999). Monogrammed in pencil ''AB“ on the lower margin at the center. Representing a tree trunk in front of a fence, with a rapid and talented sign, this modern artwork was realized in the native land of the artist, as the notes in pencil and on the back reports: ''St Moreil''. In very good conditions, including a cardboard passepartout (cm 49 x 34). André Roland Brudieux (Saint-Moreil, Creuse, France, 1921 – Paris, 1999) The French artist spent his youth in Vendôme, in the department of Loire-et-Cher, where he worked as a wallpaper stenciller. In 1939 he began to engrave and, in 1941, moved to Paris, studying at the École du Louvre between 1945-1957. Talented draftsman and sensitive artist, André Roland Brudieux was a member of Surrealist mouvement, gravitating around André Breton and participating in Surrealist exhibitions in 1950. He also began to experiment the woodcut technique in 1997. Best-known as engraver or draftsman of natural landscapes, he was also a writer, who attended the great Parisian salons, and a collector of old wallpapers and artwork. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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