Cassigneul Jean-Pierre, Le Silence, 1981
1981
Lithograph in color on Arches paper
76 x 54 cm.
Annotated in pencil lower left “E.A”, signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Tirage Mourlot, Paris
Catalogue raisonné : Sauret 243
This original lithograph shows a young woman seated at a table in front of an empty chair, with a dark garden behind her, suggesting autumn, and her pensive downward gaze accentuating the melancholy of the composition. Jean-Pierre Cassigneul devoted much of his time to lithography, demonstrating his interest in the art of printmaking.
The theme of the woman remains constant in all his compositions. It’s the landscapes in the background, often coastal or garden, that vary with the seasons and moods.
About the author
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul (born 1935)
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul has built up a personal body of work on the bangs of contemporary artistic circles and preoccupations. Women, saturated-colored gardens in bloom in the heart of summer, and the seaside are among the subjects that have most captured his attention. Mostly alone, in profile, elegantly dressed, wearing a hat, his figures evoke Verlaine’s famous lines about women “who are, each time, neither quite the same nor quite another” (Poèmes saturniens, 1866).
