Jacques TRUPHÉMUS (1922 - 2017) Flower bouquet (circ.1980)

Born on October 25, 1922 in Grenoble and died in 2017 in Lyon, Truphémus was a painter, pastellist and engraver. During his career, he painted interiors, figures, landscapes with figures, waterscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, port scenes, architectural views.
Truphémus studied from 1942 to 1945 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, where he lived and worked. It is particularly sensitive to dull lights and silvery greys.

Rather than describing the landscape, he endeavours to find its pictorial equivalent, both in the material worked over a long period of time and in the subtle progressions of colour. Invited by architect friends, he traveled to Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka) in 1970 and returned changed in his artistic technique: he now has a new interest in line and drawing. The material is lightened, the forms evanescent. On his return, he began research on space and light.

=> => Jacques TRUPHÉMUS (1922-2017), Flower bouquet, circa 1980, watercolour, bearing the stamp of the studio on the back of the sheet, 44 x 33 cm.
=> Similar works : Chrysanthème, 1980, oil on canvas, reproduced on page 36 and page 128 in the collective work, Truphémus, Lausanne.