| (....) I believe that one of the most moving, among the hardworking people of our time.
From Cézanne to the thousand examples he retained the advice to work with a kind of relentless patience, with jealous honesty and as a nun. All his canvases, by their thick material, researched for a long time, by their somewhat painful and always very humble probity, are respectable. This Provencal has learned to see nature, both as Poussin and as Cézanne. Then, having obtained that she spoke to him, with the same voice that she took for them, he strives to note his majestic confidences. It is up close that you have to see a landscape of Girieud and the beige enamel of its rocks and never again will you be tempted to pass slightly in front of his paintings. (....)
Reproduction of Jas de la Bourrasque p.42 |