Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 80

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Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 80
Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) Papiers choisis, 1960 Fragments of illustrations from illustrated magazines, cut out and pasted onto a sheet taken from a spiral notebook, bearing two wet stamps from the artist's studio on the lower left and enriched with a small spiral drawing in ballpoint pen on the back. Freckles, small creases and slight handling marks. 27 x 42 cm Provenance: Daniel Cordier collection, Paris. The set of drawings we present, from the Daniel Cordier collection, 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 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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