Project Description

Gouache

overall dimensions : 37 cm x 43 cm

Signed lower right : G. Poitevin, located : Laghouat, dated : 48

Laghouat Algeria

Georges Le Poitevin (Le Havre 26 May 1912 - Aix en Provence 1992)

The artist receives scholarship from the Abd-el-Tif Villa 1945. Very impressed with the two experiments that will turns Sahara 1949 at 1950 then 1956 at 1957, The Poitevin forgets his own work. This is especially the deep south that marks his imagination. He first traveled in Fezzan, then, with his comrades of the villa, Chambrin and Martin, agrees to follow the mission Henri Lhote to meet the frescoes of Tassili. Adventure is sponsored by Abbé Breuil, pioneer prehistory.

It reflects the experience : "It is infinitely moving to live in these regions, in such a setting, among the Tuareg and set on drawing paper rolls artistic sum of a lost civilization and the message of the men of this amazing past Saharan ". He chose to stay in Algeria after breaking 1962. Housed in Tipasa, he became curator.

Expositions : Alger, 1944, Salle Pierre Bordes : works of Fezzan ; Alger 1955, Salle Pierre Bordes : The frescoes of Tassili ; Montecarlo, 1951 : Female Algiers, Constantine, 1953 ; Meknès, 1953, Art exhibition of French Africa. Tunis, 1955 : Tassili Adjer (Sahara), Figures de Ghat-Fezzan, Art exhibition of French Africa ; Alger, 1960, Galerie Romanet : Tipasa.

Primary works : Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers : Tuareg women, Port of Tipaza, Targuias of Adjers ; Ahmed Zabana museum in Oran : Ghat Lybie ; F.N.A.C . : View Melika, Sahara oil (on deposit at Saint-Lô, prefecture of the Channel).

Biography : Elisabeth Cazenave, La Villa Abd-el-Tif, half a century of artistic life in Algeria, 1907-1962, Paris, The Editions Abd-el-Tif, 1998.

Sources : Artists of Algeria - Dictionary sculptors painters, engravers. 1830-1962 – Editions de l’Onde – Association Abd-el-Tif

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