Denis VURPILLOT (Born in Valentigney in 1938) - Lot 270

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Denis VURPILLOT (Born in Valentigney in 1938) - Lot 270
Denis VURPILLOT (Born in Valentigney in 1938) "Le Chemin de la Vie", 1993 Mixed media including acrylic on Canson, signed and dated lower right, titled and dated on the back on an artist's label, no. 140 65 x 50 cm Provenance: artist's studio Exhibition: Retrospective, Sochaux, 2000 (no. 140 refers to the number of the work in the exhibition) A student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Besançon, Denis Vurpillot's teachers included Georges Oudot, Jean Ricardon and Jean Gilles. He taught visual arts for almost 35 years, all the while devoting himself to his art, with his first solo exhibition in Besançon in 1970, and some thirty exhibitions to his credit to date, both in the region and across France. Two retrospectives have been held, in 2000 and 2025. Denis Vurpillot's pictorial research leads him to exploit a variety of supports (canvas, cardboard, paper, wood...) and to use equally varied materials (acrylic, gouache, pastel, ink...), also exploring tapestry (made by the Aubusson weavers) and sculpture. Gestural graphics, tachism, calligraphy, writing, light, color, sometimes abstract, sometimes closer to poetic realism, his work is diverse, but carried out with one and the same purpose: to create a poetic and spiritual work. "Vurpillot's painting is a bit like trying to put reality into abstraction [...] Beyond these structural considerations, this painting emanates a beneficial, soothing, serene light, which is undoubtedly the radiance of Denis Vurpillot's faith." (L'Alsacien, June 29 1982, on the occasion of the artist's exhibition at Galerie Aktuaryus in Strasbourg). The ensemble we are offering at this auction provides an overview of Denis Vurpillot's work, from the 1970s to the 2000s. These works were kept at the studio for the foundation project, which unfortunately did not come to fruition due to the death of its founder.
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