Lot n° 34
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200 - 250
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Yves Brayer: Horses in the Camargue, 1970 (signed) - Lot 34
Yves Brayer: Horses in the Camargue, 1970 (signed)
Original etching with drypoint details on heavy vellum;
Numbered 167/175 in pencil in the lower left corner, signed “Yves Brayer” in pencil in the lower right corner
Dimensions: Sheet 57 × 76 cm (22.4 × 29.9 in.); Print area 48 × 64 cm (18.9 × 25.2 in.)
Condition: Very fine condition. Rich and sharp print, clean print area, full margins with untrimmed edges. A few slight handling creases in the margins, unmarked. Unframed.
Private collection, France
A herd of Camargue horses—one dark, the others the light gray typical of the breed—stands among the tamarisk trees at the edge of a shallow pond, a foal pressed close to its mother on the right, while egrets wade in the water in the foreground and a low farmhouse frames the horizon beneath a sky rendered in long parallel hatches. The composition is built almost entirely on line: the reeds laid low by the mistral in a single sweep to the right, the bare branches rendered with a nervous, stinging touch, the light-colored coats left in the white of the paper and modeled with just a few outlines. Born in Versailles in 1907, Brayer trained at the academies of Montparnasse and the École des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de Rome in 1930; his years at the Villa Medici forged a lifelong connection to the Mediterranean basin. After the war, he discovered Provence—the Alpilles and, above all, the wild expanses of the Camargue—which transformed his palette and provided the subjects for his mature work. He settled in Les Baux-de-Provence, where the Yves Brayer Museum opened in 1991, and continued to work in printmaking alongside his painting throughout his career.
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