Georges Desvallières: un Fauve retrouvé

• Autores: Géraldine Veyrat
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 187, 2015, págs. 49-58
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Georges Desvallières: a Fauve rediscovered.

    Founder of the Ateliers d'Art Sacré in 1919, Georges Desvallières also has a secular body of work, in which Fauvism occupies a fundamental place, both in terms of theory and in actual painting.

    Artist close Gustave Moreau, he was noticied by the most important critics of Symbolism and then by those of Fauvism. The master of Symbolism transmitted to Desvallières a very modern vision of art, notably through his research on color. In 1903, Desvallières made a trip to London, which took on a character of emancipation on the artistic level. He retourned with a body of work bearing witness to new experimentation. He abandoned mythological painting for subjets tied to night life and he simplified the layout of his compositions.

    Upon his return, he became vicepresident of the Salon d'Automne, contributing, in this contex, to the promotion of young color painters, in particular the Fauves. After the canvases painted under the influence of his master, and those from the London period, came the works close to those of the contemporary avant-garde painters, in which Desvallières allowed himself remarkable chromatic boldness.