Rene Brochard

We are currently offering for sale the following painting by Rene Brochard. (August 18, 2006)

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Description: This important original painting is of "Le Retour" Terre de Baffin by artist Rene Brochard (Canadian artist).

The painting is on canvas with signing on the front and back. The painting is also titled and dated 1975 on the back in ink writing. There is also the artist's emblem in bottom right corner of the painting.

Painting size is 20" tall by 24" long; in excellent condition. It is framed in it's original frame. A floating 3" liner with a gold lip and a floating black interior and gold 2" outside moulding. The overall outside dimensions are 34" x 30".

The painting may be viewed locally in Montreal at Galerie Pierre Séguin, by appointment.

See - www.pseguin.com for more information.

The painting is estimated at $20,000 - $24,000 CDN.

Serious inquiries only please! 

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BROCHARD'S odyssey for no less than Ulysses' fabled voyages is an odyssey taking him from the Great North of Canada to the deserts of the American Southwest, from the Vieux Carre of New Orleans to the elemental beauties of Old Mexico, from the tropical jungles and rain forests of Central and South America to the formalized loveliness of the Far East, from the meditative calm of a monastery garden in Kyoto to the vivid colour and turbulence of the Indian scene ...all these, and more, have been sanctuaries of Brochard in his eternal quest, which is the quest of every artist worthy of attention for a greater purity and simplicity, a deeper meaning.

Each sojourn has provided Brochard with new perspectives and insights and has added its imprint, its modifying influence to a style that from the first has always been marked by a bold, vivid, imaginative use of color and line, and an almost in-depth, sculptural quality of painting and drawing.  The necessities of circumstance that arose while doing his murals in Brasilia supplied the impetus to create an added dimension, the use of relief in the form of semi-sculptured steel embodied in the texture and design of his works. Never massively applied, but integrated so as to form a harmonious and provocative statement, these "oil-steel" paintings project line and shadow beyond the limitation of the picture's frame.

With more than thirty one-man exhibitions, including several retrospective shows, in various parts of the world, and paintings in many museums and important collections, Brochard could justly lay claim to having "arrived" in the fullest sense of the word. But this is a claim that he, as an artist, would be and rightly so most reluctant to accept if it should signify an end to searching, to seeking, exploring. living, and recreating that gusto for living in graphic, dramatic forms.

For, as the critic Jacobo Glantz has said in regard to him: "Brochard is a genuine talent with an artistic vision that defies comparison, difficult to catalogue in one school or another ...whose imagination and personality fortunately reinforce his unquestioned mastery, bringing both together in one harmonious whole."

BROCHARD Born / Né à Paris en 1926. Nationalité française et canadienne

Painted for over 50 years with more than 50 exhibitions. Brochard has over 4,000 paintings in many private collections and museums around the world.

Un demi siècle de peinture. Plus de 50 expositions particulières. Quelque 4000 tableaux dispersés dans les plus grandes collections privées et musées à travers le monde .....

EXHIBITIONS

1956.57 PARIS Salon de l'imagerie

1958 PARIS Bernhein Jeune

1959 STOCKHOLM et MALMO Exposition L'ECOLE de Paris

1959 MONTREAL Galerie Dresner

IMPORTANT PERIODS - PÉRIODES IMPORTANTES:

1959 Decided to become a painter. Décide de se consacrer entièrement à la peinture

1960 A New York.Le président J.KUBISCHECK l'invite à rejoindre l'équipe des créateurs de Brasilia

1962 Par Invented Iron Painting, a new school of using metal - manque de matériel à Brasilia il invente la FERROPEINTURE qui sera le nom d'une nouvelle école du métal. Création des premières murales: Université O Elefante Branco et 
Décoration de la chapelle du Curé d'ars

1964 Séjour à TAJIN (Mexique) rencontre avec les Totonaques

1968 Les BROCHARD s'installent dans un ranch Atelier à Tepotzlan.Mexique

1971 Sejourne en Israël.

1979 Départ pour les Indes

1980 Nouvelle résidence à Montréal

Premier séjour au Tibet (Témoin d'un génocide!)

Nouvelle résidence secondaire et Atelier à Villeuneuve les Avignon

1991 Dernier carnet de route Tibet et paysages de Provence

2000 Dernière grande exposition à Montréal:El mercado de Tepoztlan

RÉPERTORIE AU BENEZIT édition 1999

Des centaines d'articles dans les revues et journaux

Un livre édité par John V.Sands & Associates