Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 78

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Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 78
Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) Untitled (Les Taureaux series), before 1952 Charcoal drawing on brown paper. Marginal handling marks and tears. 32 x 44 cm approx. Provenance: Daniel Cordier collection, Paris (handwritten mention and inventory number of the DBC [Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier] collection on the back). Bibliography: Roland Barthes, Marcel Billot, Alfred Pacquement, Bernard Réquichot, Bruxelles, La Connaissance, 1973, reproduced and described on p. 193 (cat. rais. 34). The set of drawings we present, from the collection of Daniel Cordier, 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, 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 you should only say what you love to those you love..." 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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