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Alexandre Garbell (known as Sacha) was a French painter of the Ecole de Paris, born in Riga in 1903, who died in Paris in 1970.
"Garbell
loves the morning, the vast expanses where light sparkles, breaks and dilutes.
dilutes. Naturally, ports, beaches and Paris would be his themes
not his subjects...", writes Guy Weelen. Part of his work is thus set in Mers les bains, where he was a regular visitor.
He regularly took part in major exhibitions in France and abroad: "Salon des surindépendants", "Salon de mai" in 1950 and again from 1954 to 1961; "Salon des réalités nouvelles" in 1961; "Comparaisons" in 1956, 1957, 1962 and 1963; also "Salon des Tuileries" and "Salon d'automne"; "Terres latines", "Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui".At one point in his career, he was tempted by abstraction. But soon enough, he moved beyond the opposition between abstraction and figuration to render reality in terms of shapes, colors and rhythms. Figuration runs the risk of stopping at the anecdotal; Garbell seeks the essential; he doesn't represent, he translates, he transposes.
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