PAUL GUIRAMAND

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Paul Guiramand (1926-2007) was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, where his father worked as a construction supervisor. The family moved to Paris in the early 1930s and, in 1943, Paul Guiramand enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts. He was one of the students of painter Maurice Brianchon (1899-1979). In addition to his teacher, the influence of Picasso and Matisse led him to a figurative style free of the constraints of realism.
At the end of the 1940s, Guiramand travelled to Spain and Italy, where he discovered the works of Masaccio and Piero della Francesca, which were to become a source of inspiration for him. In 1952, he was awarded the Prix de Rome and lived at the Villa Médicis from 1953 to 1956.
In addition to painting, Paul Guiramand was interested in all techniques, in particular engraving and lithography at the workshop of master printer Fernand Mourlot (1895-1988), where Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and Braque also worked. Theatrical decoration also attracted him. In 1960, he illustrated the works of Apollinaire and Hemingway. He also created mosaics, in particular for the University of Grenoble.
In 1953, Guiramand began exhibiting his work. Until the 2000s, he had numerous exhibitions in Europe, the United States, Mexico and, on several occasions, Japan.
Like that of André Brasilier, Paul Guiramand's painting may appear figurative at first glance. But it is above all poetic. The real is evocative, used to translate and produce emotion. Vivid, contrasting colors illustrate moments of pleasure, fine days, moments of grace, childhood memories, long summer days; in short, subjects that incite reverie.

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