Expressionist still life painting in green-black-orange colors by Serge Labégorre - professionally framed
Passionate still life designed with thick brush strokes of acrylic paint that appears even more plastic and vivid due to the black framing of the objects.
Handmade shadow gap frame (6.0cm) with white gold decoration.
Serge Labégorre, born December 1932 in Talence, is a French painter of the expressionist movement.
Serge Labégorre lives and works in the Gironde, near Libourne.
After a long illness that forced him to immobility, Labégorre knew how to make a strength: the painting will be his form of expression and he will dedicate all his life to it.The meeting, at the College of Libourne, with the professor of drawing of genius, Henri Charnay, will be a second opportunity in his life of the artist.
The work of Serge Labégorre is characterized by the strength of his drawing, which immediately attracts our attention: the line is sure, without ambiguity, the look is lively, penetrating, determined, and the black background that surrounds him, far from engulfing him, increases his determination even more. It is a hymn to life, a victory for life, despite its vicissitudes. There is no despair in Labégorre's work, only the strength to overcome and give back to man all his nobility.
Serge Labégorre is considered one of the greatest living French expressionists. In his career spanning several decades Labégorre has exhibited all over the world. He has trusted very few agents with his works over the years, refusing famously to collaborate with one of the biggest Asian art dealers as this would become ‘painting to order’. He says of his art “Painting is a desire, I let what I carry inside me unknowingly of violence, heartbreak, suffering and love emerge, and I try to tune into it.” So I feel honoured as a close friend to have been given his complete trust and to bring his work here to Miami. My late grandfather David Goodman, Artist, fellow Art Agent, gallery owner and founder of the Chichester Society first discovered Serge Labégorre in 1968 in France. Working alongside Sir Lawrence Olivier he offered to represent the talented young artist at The Chichester
Festival, Serge left his job as a teacher and spent a year painting for the festival. As promised it launched his long and successful career and a long personal and professional relationship blossomed between he and my grandfather. Serge’s wonderful daughter Sophie recently took me to Fronsac, Bordeaux to the farmhouse and studio the artist shares with his wife Rosie where I uncovered many unseen pieces . He has agreed to exhibit some of these older pieces exclusively for this exhibition.
Since 1956 he has exhibited in Bordeaux, Toulouse, Pau, Paris, but also in Porto, New York and San Francisco.
The real ''impetus'' for Serge Labégorre to devote himself fully to his art came in 1966 through a contract with an English gallery. Since then, this master of contemporary expressionism has exhibited all over the world and continuously in France.
Many collectors trusted him since his first steps in painting, and new ones come regularly. Serge Labégorre's paintings are exhibited in museums in Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Tokyo, Geneva, Brussels, New York, San Francisco, London, Zurich and so on.
The exact career can be read on Wikipedia