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Lot Essay
"I consider Brasilier’s œuvre very much in the forefront of painting over the last half century." (L. Harambourg & R. Bouillot, André Brasilier, Monograph, Lausanne, 2002, p. 295.)
Les premieres neiges depicts a dreamlike landscape of chevaliers riding across a luxuriant forest on an early winter day. The trees are scattered with amber and emerald leaves like shimmering stars. The horses charging through the forest elegantly like spiritual creatures, their shadowy colour is adorned by the red clothing of one chevalier and set-off against the silver white virgin snow. The monumental scale of the painting brings the viewer into the scene. One can almost hear the galloping horses and the shuffling leaves in the winter breeze. This magical arena conveys the utter serenity and inner freedom that it can only exist in the most peaceful mind.
Brasilier showed his artistic talent at a young age and attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of twenty. His father Jacque Brasilier, a painter himself, believed that the purpose of art was to convey spirituality, which is shown in André Brasilier’s work. Describing Brasilier’s artistic endeavour, Roger Bouillot remarks: ‘His [Brasilier’s life] has been the textbook life of a painter, a life devoted heart and soul to painting, and enduringly underpinned by the intensity of a message of love sent forth by an oeuvre that radiates beauty.’ (L. Harambourg & R. Bouillot, André Brasilier, Monograph, Lausanne, 2002, p. 288.)
Les premieres neiges depicts a dreamlike landscape of chevaliers riding across a luxuriant forest on an early winter day. The trees are scattered with amber and emerald leaves like shimmering stars. The horses charging through the forest elegantly like spiritual creatures, their shadowy colour is adorned by the red clothing of one chevalier and set-off against the silver white virgin snow. The monumental scale of the painting brings the viewer into the scene. One can almost hear the galloping horses and the shuffling leaves in the winter breeze. This magical arena conveys the utter serenity and inner freedom that it can only exist in the most peaceful mind.
Brasilier showed his artistic talent at a young age and attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of twenty. His father Jacque Brasilier, a painter himself, believed that the purpose of art was to convey spirituality, which is shown in André Brasilier’s work. Describing Brasilier’s artistic endeavour, Roger Bouillot remarks: ‘His [Brasilier’s life] has been the textbook life of a painter, a life devoted heart and soul to painting, and enduringly underpinned by the intensity of a message of love sent forth by an oeuvre that radiates beauty.’ (L. Harambourg & R. Bouillot, André Brasilier, Monograph, Lausanne, 2002, p. 288.)