Painting/sanguine by Lucien Vignolle after Modigliani 1990’s

Painting/sanguine drawing by Lucien Vignolle after Modigliani, 1990s. France. Lucien Vignolle is a painter born in Roubaix in 1934, living and working in the Nord department (Croix). Trained in advertising and graphic arts, he has pursued a creative career while developing his own personal body of work. His work blends painting, collage, assemblage, and sometimes compressions/accumulations in Plexiglas, with a sensibility informed by travels between East and West. He has exhibited several times in the region and in Paris; he is vice-president of the Société des Artistes Roubaisiens (since 2003) and a Knight of the National Order of Merit (1982). This work pays explicit homage to Amedeo Modigliani, master of elongated figures, oval faces with almond-shaped eyes, and synthetic lines that have marked modern art. Vignolle appropriates these codes with his own distinctive style: a stylized portrait (elongated neck, pure face), a nervous drawing style, and a warm palette that evoke the melancholic elegance of Modigliani while remaining distinctly Vignolle through his handling of materials and his sense of graphic rhythm. The work functions both as a sophisticated allusion and a striking decorative piece: ideal for a contemporary display, either alone or as the first piece in a series dedicated to tributes and variations.