Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 76

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Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 76
Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) Untitled Blue ballpoint pen drawing on paper, mounted on cardboard, with studio stamp on back. Small stains and collage to be revised. 43.5 x 34 cm Provenance: Daniel Cordier collection, Paris (DBC [Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier] collection label on back). The set of drawings we are presenting, from the Daniel Cordier collection, is essential to understanding Bernard Requichot's rich, complex and meteoric career. 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, leading to a fluid, abstract practice from 1956 onwards, 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.
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