Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 81

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Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) - Lot 81
Bernard RÉQUICHOT (1929-1961) Papiers choisis, 1960 Fragments of illustrations from illustrated magazines, cut out and glued to white cardboard, glued to beige cardboard, with the artist's wet stamp on the back. Slight foxing and small tears on the right-hand side. 49.5 x 65.5 cm Provenance: Daniel Cordier collection, Paris (handwritten mention and inventory number of the DBC [Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier] collection on the back). Bibliography: Roland Barthes, ..., op. cit. reproduced and described on page 209 (cat. rais. 411). The set of drawings we are presenting, 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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