ROGER FORISSIER 1924/2003

In 1942, FORISSIER entered Antoine Chartres' studio at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and divided his time between haymaking, harvesting, grape-picking and his classes, trying above all to escape the Service du Travail Obligatoire.


In 1947, he moved to Paris, where he passed the entrance exam to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Maurice Boitel, who was leaving for Algeria, gave him his studio. Roger Forissier then moved to the Villa des Lyonnais. He founds Le Groupe des Lyonnais, a group that disbands in 1955. Its main exhibition was held on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, with six exhibitors from Lyon. Édouard Herriot wrote the preface to the catalog booklet.
He traveled to Dordrecht and Amsterdam in Holland (1952-1959-1960), the Canary Islands and Morocco in Spain (1953-1972), Nijmegen on the Rhine (1959), Italy, Morocco, Switzerland, Austria (1979-1980), Denmark (1972), Japan, Egypt (1980), Greece and the United States (1981), as well as Rouergue (1955), Brittany (1960), Sologne (1962) and the Midi region of France.
These travels enabled him to produce numerous canvases and provided him with great inspiration.

He became a member of the Académie Henri Boitiat, presided over by his friend Paul Ambille, a member of the Académie de Rabelais and president of the École de Moret association, which organizes the annual Salon de Fontainebleau. He was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

The '50s were not all about abstraction.
Some realist artists also left us some fine pieces of painting.
Such is the case of Roger Forissier (1924/2003), a painter of water and light. Here, the entrance to the loing in the evening at saint mammere. A serene atmosphere emanates from all his landscapes.
Hst 65x81cm.
VERY FINE PAINTING IN PERFECT CONDITION.
PROVENANCE PRIVATE COLLECTION NICOISE

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