Oil on canvas "The marshes of Chauny" by Michel Messager

Messager michel (1930 - 2018) oil on canvas "the marshes of chauny" slight wear on frame dimensions: frame: 55 X 46 cm frame: 68.5 X 59.5 cm messager michel was born on april 18, 1930 in beaumon-du- gatinais in seine et marne. Died on october 4, 2018 he is a french painter, sculptor and designer. Messenger michel completed ordinary studies and took drawing lessons with the evening classes of the city of paris. He began his professional life as a wood sculptor and then, little by little, he began his career as a painter and draftsman. Messenger michel really became known from 1959, when he received the first prize for abstract composition at the deauville salon. The painter has many favorite subjects such as still lifes, landscapes... The artist participates in numerous exhibitions such as the painters' salon in 1963. Subsequently he exhibits in many countries and travels in europe and in america where numerous landscape paintings, seascapes and bouquets of flowers emerge. The artist is also fascinated by masks and costumes. This is why, in 1977, he composed around fifty paintings on the theme of carnival. Messenger michel receives the silver medal for arts-sciences-letter and numerous other distinctions. Messager practices paradoxical painting linking white and black, light and dark, the powerful and the fragile, the eternal and the ephemeral. The color applied with a knife is brilliantly honest and needs no support. He leads a plastic fight for the victory of light, beauty, perfection and freedom. Messager gives the image of a creator struggling with a reality bordering on a dream, who refuses to let himself be caught.

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