village au soleil - oil on canvas - eliane thiollier

"the village in the sun", oil on canvas signed lower right. Artwork by eliane thiollier. Framed. Eliane thiollier (1926 – 1989) French painter. Born on june 5, 1926 in st germain en laye, she studied at the ecole des beaux-arts in paris and then attended the rené jaudon studio where she refined her technique and was introduced to lithography. Master and pupil jointly illustrated in 1950 the poems of frédéric de towarnicki. She participated in 1951 at the salon de la jeune peinture in paris and at the salon comparaisons in 1954. It is the light of provence and particularly of the camargue that allows him to assert his palette, in warm tones, ochre, orange, red... She travels a lot (morocco, india, thailand, kenya, mexico) then settles in the southwest, in tourtrès (lot-et-garonne). Appointed secretary general of the young painting from 1957 to 1964, then member of the executive committee of the union des arts plastiques, secretary general of the salon du dessin et de la peinture à l'eau, member of the board of the salon d'automne (of which she was general curator in 1987) she worked all her life fervently for the defense and recognition of figurative painting. Died in 1989 in a car accident, she left a rich and abundant body of work presented many times in salons and collective or personal exhibitions. His works can be seen in various french museums (fontainebleau, les baux-de-provence, cholet, mulhouse, riom, villeneuve-sur-lot) and at the petit palais in geneva.

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