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A visiOn OF REALiTY

WiTh nO sTRings

ATTAChED

Marked by a prodigious eclecticism, both

enthusiastic and modest, as if he felt some
limits to his knowledge, whereas precisely
his culture, his skill ans his spontaneity
as a born-painter allow him to know no
limitations, save those imposed by his beloved

independence, which he protects, knowing It’s impossible not to get the moving message
himself as well as he knows how to probe the of his series entitled “Human woes” (wartime),
world in which he moves about. An altruist with these portraits of distress and hopelessness.

and a loner at the same time. All that have You can’t help watching at leisure this fresco, with
VAN seen his latest exhibition have realized how in the Capitol of Toulouse, when “Benvenuto
countless characters, actors and musicians, made
this sensitive artist masters his art in order to

QUE show the essence as well as the appearance of Cellini”, by Berlioz, was rehearsed.
the things and beings that he paints. Always

ARt aware of staying “neither too near, nor too far  RUEllE à COllIOURE
from reality”, he follows the advice of TS’i
1966 GOUAChE ON PAPER 15½x11½ IN. / 40x30 CM.
PaÏ-Che, who died 26 years ago. RUE CAFFE (EMbRUN) 
48 48 1995 OIl ON CANVAS 23½x11½ IN. / 60x30 CM.