Correspondence Gabriel Frizeau - Lot 390

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Correspondence Gabriel Frizeau - Lot 390
Correspondence Gabriel Frizeau FRIZEAU (Gabriel) - LACOSTE (Charles) Strong set of 95 letters and various correspondences (end of XIXth, beginning of XXth) from the painter Charles LACOSTE to the great Bordeaux collector Gabriel FRIZEAU, among which 2 with small pencil drawing. Charles Lacoste (.1870-1959), French painter of self-taught formation, friend since high school with Gabriel Frizeau, met in particular André Gide, Arthur Fontaine, the Rouart brothers and the composer Henri Duparc. Rejected by the Société des amis des Arts de Bordeaux, he exhibited in October 1898 at the Salon des Cent; he moved to Paris and from 1901 to 1914 he exhibited at the Indépendants. A founding member of the Salon d'Automne, he also exhibited at the Salon de la Libre Esthétique in Brussels in 1907 and the Salon de la Toison d'Or in Moscow in 1908. Through a process of simplification and a sort of deliberate naivety, Lacoste, faithful to the idealist tendency, finds subjects of wonder or sometimes disquieting reverie in foggy and wintry atmospheres that allow the artist to simplify forms reduced to indecisive shapes and to transfigure daily reality. Charles Lacoste lived in Béarn, in Monein, then in Pardies, where a street and the local elementary school bear his name. He is buried in the cemetery of Pardies. Some of the correspondence we are proposing contributed to the edition of the book Correspondances. 1897-1938 (Gallimard, 1952)
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