Bernard Cathelin (1919- 2004)

Color is at the center of Bernard Cathelin's work. It is even the main subject. He does not paint a bunch of flowers, a woman, a landscape; he marries colors and tones according to agreements of strong contrasts or proximity. In his lithographs, he tries to give his colors a density of matter similar to that which characterizes his painting.

 

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Portrait of Bernard Cathelin

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Artist's biography Bernard Cathelin

Bernard Cathelin was born in Paris in 1919. After the interruption of the war, he resumed his studies at the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs, where between 1945 and 1948 he studied in the studio of Maurice Brianchon, a colorist painter in the tradition of Henri Matisse. Cathelin demonstrates a strong sensitivity to color and light, which he translates with great accuracy.

His many travels - to Latin America, and especially Mexico, Japan, Italy and Spain, to name but a few - are an essential source of inspiration, as are the landscapes of the Drôme region, the birthplace of his maternal origins, with its generous, sun-drenched nature, from which he draws his colorful chords.

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