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Jean Sanglar
Man with a Hat on a Yellow & Blue background with a Red Flag floating
1964

Name: Man with a Hat on a Yellow & Blue background with a Red Flag floating
Brand: Jean Sanglar
Price: 6000 USD
Availability: InStock

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Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequently, but his potential was not recognized by his parents; it was only considered a hobby and surely not part of the parent’s education plan. As a timid teenager, Jean left the family home to study law in Aix en Provence, which lead him to a career at the Ministére de la Marine in Paris. Paris: the dream was coming true, visits of museums, neighbourhoods full of galleries, everything to open oneself to the art world! Everyday, after work, Jean spent all his time painting and drawing by himself. A loner, discrete and reserved, he didn’t speak about his art, which is where his freedom existed and where he was finally able to express his fertile imagination and break free from the oppression he grew up with. Polite and gentle, he found in this creative approach the freedom to express all the eccentric and resourceful side of his inner world. Rigour was the corner stone of his constructions, constantly conscious of the space, he managed the use of colours in a very specific manner, harmoniously disposing them in geometrical flat plans. Burlesque was the dimension of this universe: theatre of his phantasmagoric creations where the representation of a surrealistic and grotesque humanity take place. Evolving in rapid phases, his drawings are rich of pastel traits, knife marks or even blades biting the fresh coat of paint. Swirling sometimes, the shapes will give birth to mysterious golems characters opening their deep orbits looking at the world with hallucinated eyes. Strangely expressing faces, gigantic hands and whitening bodies, characters pictured in highly offset situations always suffused with humour in a fanciful universe which often question an unbridled freedom. Some pieces evoke the holocaust, a world strangely imbued with illusion from where arise some shapeless bodies lying on the beach under the sun, sometimes playing clarinet or double bass always depicted by sharp and lively traits swirling and tangling to describe a cruelly real world “tragically comical” where he visits with his personal style the universes of a Jérôme Bush, a Lucien Freud and also an Egon Schiele or a Francis Bacon through a very sharpen eye on the human kind. He painted all his life long, hundreds of paintings were discovered in his Parisian apartment when he died in 1996. In the 1960’s he exhibited a few times in Paris as well as in his native South of France. Beginning of August 1968, he exhibited his work with worldwide acclaimed artist Pablo Picasso. The exhibition, “Themes et Variations”, was a resounding success. In Saint Tropez, he also collaborated with the Parisian gallery Marcus-Durand and won the prize at the “Salon Interministériel” awarded by the City of Paris. Today, his work comes to light and we discover a real talent, a phantasmagoric universe, and this world; he created it freely, without pressure nor sanction: a production full of freedom created in the secret of a truly passionated artistic existence.

Creator:

Jean Sanglar (1926 - 1996, French)

Creation Year:

1964

Dimensions:

Height: 48.04 in (122 cm)Width: 37.8 in (96 cm)

Medium:

Acrylic,Pastel,Mixed Media,Oil Crayon,Oil Pastel,Oil

Movement & Style:

Neo-Expressionist

Period:

Late 20th Century

Condition:

Framed.

Gallery Location:

Miami, FL

Reference Number:

Seller: #9041stDibs: LU1365783192

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Jean Sanglar

Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took up a position in Paris at the Ministry of the Navy, where he spent his entire professional career. Nevertheless, Sanglar painted his entire life. He frequents the “underground” artistic circles in New York and London, where he meets Francis Bacon and other noteworthy characters. Many pieces were discovered after his death in 1996, including an important series about the Holocaust. In the 1960s, he was frequently exhibited in Paris, where he was awarded a silver medal. Of note, in August of 1968, he met Picasso at a joint exhibition. He expresses his pain in facing the reality of the world when he states, “I don’t pretend to be a witness. I don’t paint to say something; it’s a job, not a hobby.” In his work, rigor remains the watchword, it is present in all his constructions where it is characterized by the use of space in large flat areas of uniform colors, harmonized in different geometric planes leaving a significant space to the universe in which his characters evolve. “I’m not interested in the finished canvas. It is the next one that is important!" An assertive talent that presents to us a humanity that is both surrealist and grotesque. The rhythm is lively and violent; the strokes of pastel or knife marks incise a layer of still fresh paint, winding into endless hanks to give birth to mysterious golems with hollow orbits, opening onto the world a hallucinated haunting look. Expressive facial expressions, whitish bodies, gigantic hands, characters in strangely offbeat situations, in this fascinating universe that leaves on questioning. A world of unbridled freedom, derision, from which deformed bodies spring, sometimes lying on a beach in the sun, playing the trumpet or double bass, spinning, cruelly entangling and drawing the reality of a tragic-comic world. Sangla joins, in his unique style, the expressionist universes of an Edvard Munch, a Lucian Freud, an Egon Schiele or Francis Bacon. He accomplishes this through a sharp look at the world around him. Today, through his work, we have the privilege to discover the fantastic Universe of Sangla.