Yves Brayer

YVES BRAYER (France, 1907 - 1990).
"Bullfighters", 1949.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower left corner. With date and title on the back.
Measurements: 33 x 24 cm; 41,5 x 32 cm (frame).

Although the focus of the bullfighting of Yves Brayer is more aligned with the traditional representation of the male bullfighter, he also immortalized in his compositions women bullfighters like the one we now bid.

Trained between 1926 and 1929 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Yves Brayer was a disciple of Lucien Simon, and in the early thirties he furthered his studies at the French Academy in Rome, thanks to the Grand Prix de Rome. He was a recognized artist from his beginnings, and already in 1928 he was distinguished with the Prize of Morocco, followed by the Grand Prix de la Villa de Paris in 1951 and the Salon des Peinares Témoins de leer Temps in 1971 (Paris). He was also a set designer and illustrator, and taught from 1935 to 1985 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in the French capital. He was also curator of the Musée Marmottan in Paris from 1977. He participated in the Paris Salons, and in 1937 he held his first solo exhibition at the Charpentier Gallery in Paris. The following year he presented himself, also individually, in Venice, Verona and Rome. In 1957 his first retrospective exhibition was held at the Musée d'Art Moderne Méditerranéen in Cagnes-sur-Mer. Today he is mainly represented in the museum that bears his name in Les Baux de Provence. Catalog Yves Brayer et ses cortèges par Pierre Mac Orlan is attached.