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Yves Brayer
French painter born in Versailles in 1907. He has been drawing and painting since his childhood.
He died in 1990 and is buried in les Baux de Provence where the YVES BRAYER MUSEUM will be inaugurated in September 1991.
Strongly attracted by mediterranean landscapes, Provence and Camargue will remain his favorite places until the end of his life.
Yves Brayer was born in Versailles in 1907. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bourges and then in Paris. After stays in Spain in 1927 and Morocco in 1928, he won the Prix de Rome and spent three years at the Villa Medicis from 1930 to 1934.
Demobilized in Montauban, he moved to Cordes-sur-Ciel in the Tarn in 1940. A museum was dedicated to him in the most beautiful hall of the town hall in 1960.
At the Liberation, he left with his wife for Provence. He realizes that there are other harmonies than those of architectures created by man, those of pure and wild nature and he is soon fascinated by the diversity of the Alpilles, then by the expanses and the fauna of the Camargue. He soon settled in Provence for several months each year.
After his Spanish black period, then Italian ocher and red, he diversified his palette by introducing greens, pale yellows and a few blues. Strongly attracted by the Mediterranean landscapes, he returned to work in Spain and Italy, but Provence and the Camargue would remain his favorite places until the end of his life.
Died in 1990, he is buried in Les Baux-de Provence where the YVES BRAYER MUSEUM will be inaugurated in September 1991.
It is present in various museums and in many collections both in France and abroad. He was a professor at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière for fifty years, President of the Salon d'Automne for five years and, as a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, curator of the Marmottan Museum in Paris for more than eleven years.
Un nouveau regard au Musée Brayer
02/06/2020
Article : La Provence
Editor Isabelle Appy
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La Gazette de Drouot
26/03/2010
Article : Yves BRAYER en noir et blanc
Editor Lydia Harambourg
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Côté Galeries
01/09/2009
Article : Yves Brayer Compagnon de route
Editor Emmanuelle Tenailleau
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Yves Brayer - Un nouveau regard
Editions des Falaises - Février 2020 - Préface de Dominique Bona
160 pages - 28 x 21 cm
19 €
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Yves Brayer - Provence, Camargue, Côte d'Azur, Cordes sur Ciel
Editions des Falaises - Avril 2022 - Préface de Patrick de Carolis
136 pages - 28 x 21 cm
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> More detailsPoster Yves Brayer "Provence Camargue Côte d'Azur Codes-sur-Ciel"
From 2022/10/14 to 2022/11/14Poster Yves Brayer "Un nouveau regard"
From 2020/10/15 to 2020/11/15Poster Yves Brayer "Yves Brayer and Spain"
From 2018/10/11 to 2018/11/11Poster Yves Brayer
From 2016/10/08 to 2016/11/08Poster Yves Brayer "Before Rome"
From 2014/10/08 to 2014/11/08Poster Yves Brayer "In black and white"
From 2012/09/08 to 2012/10/08Poster Yves Brayer "In black and white"
From 2010/03/10 to 2010/04/20Poster Yves Brayer "Painter and Traveller"
From 2007/11/20 to 2007/12/30Poster Yves Brayer "Mexico notebooks, 1963"
From 2006/03/26 to 2006/04/26Poster Yves Brayer "Capitals" or The praise of watercolour painting
From 2004/04/04 to 2004/05/04Poster Yves Brayer "From Mediterranean to Bosphore" 1928 - 1948
From 2002/09/22 to 2002/11/08