L'échappée. Oil on canvas signed lower center by Jean-Michel JOUILLAT, titled on the back. 50 x 50

L'échappée. Oil on canvas signed lower center by Jean-Michel JOUILLAT, titled on the back. 50 x 50 cm.
The painting will be sold with a book, a collection of his writings and paintings.
Jean-Michel Jouillat, born December 27, 1955 in Athis-Mons, Essonne, and died April 2, 1999 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, was a French artist, painter, visual artist and poet.
Jean-Michel Jouillat is both a painter and a poet, and his graphic work revolves around two radically different poles: abstraction and realism. He has exhibited in numerous salons, notably in Paris (Salon des Indépendants, Salon d'Automne, Salon des Artistes Français) and in galleries. Some of his paintings are accompanied by poems that explain his approach, as are the titles, which are generally much more evocative than descriptive.
He is buried south of Paris, in Chilly Mazarin, near his mother.

His main themes were people and house interiors. Influenced by surrealism, he liked unusual framing influenced by photography, and his empty interiors are often painted at night, creating an atmosphere of strangeness, unease and mystery.
Light, natural or more often artificial, can sometimes seem the real subject of his painting: he uses it to sculpt volumes, create contrasts and amplify colors that distance the apparent banality of everyday life."
Space is often extended by a door, window or staircase, or conversely shortened by a close-up of an object. Mirrors, paintings placed on the floor, windows opening onto a landscape or doors opening onto another room are all mise en abîme.
Elements such as a cup of coffee, a glass of wine or a cigarette still smoking suggest human presence in the "negative" form of temporary absence, suggesting that an event has just occurred or is about to occur, in the tradition of Henri-Cartier Bresson's "decisive moment".
"His characters are also marked by strangeness, expressing questioning, reverie, melancholy or even diffuse eroticism."

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