The Josette Bournet Museum continues its chronological exploration of the painter’s work with an exhibition devoted to the years 1950-1953.
The artist painted in oils, glue, or egg whites, on wood, hardboard, fiber cement, or cardboard. The exhibition features numerous portraits; around ten seascapes; around fifteen still lifes, in three series—Vase and Bouquet, Poultry on a Table, and the still lifes with two lapwings that the artist composed in the winter of 1953, in which we can read a farewell message to her deceased husband; compositions articulating these different motifs; a large female nude, painted in the studio of sculptor Boris Bernstein, who himself was working on a sculpture based on this same model; preparatory work for the compositions exhibited by the artist at the Salon d’Automne in 1952: The Farmyard and The Peasant Meal, paintings now lost, which feature farmers from Châteldon…
