ATELIER JEAN-PIERRE VIELFAURE
February 27, 2025 at 2 pm - Hôtel Drouot Room 14
Paintings - Drawings - Lithographs
Exhibition on February 26, 2025 from 11am to 6pm and on February 27, 2025 from 11am to 12pm.
The February 27 auction in Salle 14 at Drouot will be devoted to Jean-Pierre Vielfaure's studio, offering a representative overview of his work across several creative periods.
The canvases on offer, mostly dating from the late 1970s to the 2000s, bear witness to the evolution of his pictorial approach. They reflect both a period of formal experimentation and an artistic maturity marked by constant research into color and material. These works will be presented with estimates ranging from 100 to 500 euros, making emblematic pieces from his studio accessible.
In addition, a selection of drawings from the 1950s-1960s, estimated at between 30 and 100 euros, will explore a more intimate facet of his work, in which line and spontaneity of gesture play a central role. The sale will also include important lots of lithographs, testifying to his commitment to art publishing and the dissemination of his graphic universe.
Taken together, these works provide a comprehensive overview of Jean-Pierre Vielfaure's artistic career, a journey between plastic exploration and stylistic affirmation.
Jean-Pierre VIELFAURE was born in Algiers on June 5, 1930, in the Bab el Oued district. His father was a printer. He spent his early childhood in Algeria until 1938. On the eve of the Second World War, he left Africa with his parents and settled in Aveyron, before moving to Paris in 1952. His father gave him a taste for paper. He began drawing at the age of 12, and never stopped. Jean-Pierre VIELFAURE had a long and prolific artistic career, spanning from the 1950s to the 2000s.
Here are the highlights of his polymorphous oeuvre:
1950: First exhibition of drawings
1952: Arrived in Paris, began working in series on themes with poetic and topical references
1956: Meets German painter Carl Buchheister, who becomes her spiritual father
1958: Meets Edouard Jaguer and participates in the Phases movement from 1958 to 1965
1960: First major exhibition in Paris, Galerie du Fleuve: "Apocalypse de l'Atome".
1962: "L'Ecole de Paris", Galerie Charpentier, Paris. Lincoln Gallery, London - Inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City.
1962: Galerie Saint Laurent, Brussels. Collages and heterogeneous landscapes. Internship in 1963 in Copenhagen.
1964: Joined the Inter group, formed in Denmark 1966: Galerie Marbach, Paris: "l'Espace Intérieur".
1967: Galerie Apiaw, Liège. Galerie Saint Laurent, Brussels. Galerie Marya, Copenhagen. Galerie Latina, Stockholm. Tokyo and Kyoto
1968: Galerie 14, Aarhus. Court Gallery, Copenhagen. Part of the creative group of the Art et Perspective association from 1968 to 1974. Stays in Ibiza and Formentera. Beginning of Opéra Civilisation.
1969: Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes. The Musée de Saint Etienne and the Belgian State acquire a painting. Miro Drawing Prize
1969. Illustrations for Rock and Folk.
1970: Ivan Spence Gallery, Ibiza.
1971: Completion and exhibition of Opéra Civilisation, a monumental work 42 m long.
1973: Court Gallery in Copenhagen and Ivan Spence Gallery in Ibiza, "Les Portes d'Ibiza".
1976: Galerie Internationale in Stockholm, "Ecrans Souvenirs" series.
1977: "New York Diary" series 1980: "Fragments d'Itinéraires" series
1980: "Archéologie du Futur" series
1983/85: "Parcours Pour Une Odysée Artique" series
1982-1985: "Extract from the Bevern Codex" series
1991: "Quand la banquise devient Opera" series
2003: "Le testament Vénitien" series
2007: "Calling Spirits" series
2012: "Landscape confines" series
"Remarkably fertile," confirms the Dictionnaire Bénézit, "he practices an extremely colorful abstraction, with a decorative profusion that looks oriental, a 'narrative' abstraction carrying symbolic elements and signs suggesting the meeting of historical, literary and mythical characters."
Beware! Paintings will go on sale at Drouot
