Bernard REQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 76

Bernard REQUICHOT (1929-1961) Study of nudes Charcoal drawings on a sheet of kraft paper, front and back. Paper with uneven edges and epidermal marks. 49.5 x 36.5 cm approx. PROVENANCE: D.B.C. [Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier] collection, handwritten on the back with reference number. The set of drawings we present, from the collection of Daniel Cordier, is essential to understanding the rich, complex and meteoric career of Bernard Requichot. meteoric career of Bernard Requichot. Educated in the Catholic school system, his first creations were of a religious nature, a genesis that was to leave a lasting mark on him. Reliquaires of the second half of the 1950s). From the late 1940s, he attended a number of academies (Grande Chaumière, Charpentier, Atelier d'Art Sacré...) as well as attending the Beaux-Arts. His charcoal studies from this period, nudes and animals, emphasize a systematization of planes under the friendly influence of Jacques Villon, culminating in a fluid, abstract practice from 1956, materialized by spirals by spirals, those non-meaning writings. An eternal worrier, the man who knew "above all that one should only say what one loves to those one loves..." chose to commit suicide at the age of 32, on December 4, 1961, two days before his third exhibition at the Galerie Daniel Cordier.