ANDRÉ COTTAVOZ (Saint Marcelin, France, 1922- Valluris, France2012). "Cherry picking", 1976. Oil on canvas.

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  ANDRÉ COTTAVOZ (Saint Marcelin, France, 1922- Valluris, France2012). "Cherry picking", 1976. Oil on canvas. Presents on the back labels of "Santander Art Promotions" and Kriegel Sapiro Gallery, Paris. Signed, dated and titled on the back. Measurements: 54.5 x 65 cm; 72 x 83 cm (frame). Starting from the costumbrista tradition, the author presents us with the image of workers picking cherries, a completely traditional theme conceived through a new and contemporary pictorial language. It is an open style, whose basic characteristic is the conception of the plastic surface as a whole, as an open field, without limits and without hierarchy. Thus, as we see here, the pictorial forms are the result of a thoughtful composition and experimentation, with an image of gestural character, are not limited to a composition, but go beyond, indicating to the viewer that it is about forms, ideas or suggestions that go beyond the boundaries of the purely pictorial. André Cottavoz was a painter of French origin, born in Saint Marcelin. He began his artistic training in Lyon, in 1939, where he began studying at the College of Fine Arts of the city. At the age of twenty-two he had to abandon his artistic studies, claimed by the Compulsory Labor Service and was later deported to Austria where he suffered harsh living conditions. His artistic career began in 1945, the year in which he participated in several group exhibitions. Seven years later he was awarded the Feneon price, thus achieving recognition from both the critics and the public. At the end of the 40's and during the 50's, Cottavoz came into contact with a group of artists called "the school of Lyon" formed by Jean Fusaro, André Lauran, Jacques Truphémus and Paul Philibert-Charrin. These artists joined the current of the new figuration, whose objective was focused on the return to everyday life, to the object, against the tyranny of the abstract currents. In 1962 Cottavoz began a new line of research in his art, starting to work with ceramics. Today his work can be found in important art collections such as the Henri-Martin Museum of Cahors, the Museum of Modern Art in Troyes, the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, among many others.
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