Michel Chapuis, acrylic on canvas, expressionist, brutalist, 1997

Dated and signed on the back, 1997. Some minor flaws and losses, see photos. Michel Chapuis (1925-2004) Painter, television and radio producer (more than fifteen years at France Culture where, for 600 programs, he gave artists a voice), friend of Linstrom and Pignon, painted from the 1940s until the end of his life. Initially figurative, then abstract (he destroyed the vast majority of his abstract work), he also painted numerous neo-expressionist landscapes. This friend of Picasso and Bram van Velde, this admirer of Paul Klee, this fellow traveler of the "Cobra" movement (Lindstrom, Jorn), after a period of abstract painting, developed a body of work imbued with "rage and generosity," immediately accessible because it emerged from a dream.