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Jacques Soisson (French 1928-2012)

Jacques Soisson (French 1928-2012)

Tête à Problème (Head of a Problem-maker), 1979

Gouache on Paper

Signerd and dated Soisson 79 on the lower right and titled "Tête à problèmes" on the back

Sight size  22 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (57,2 x 50,2 cm.)

Frame size 29 1/2 x  26 inches (73,7 x 66 cm.)

 

Provenance

Ex. Carone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1980

Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida (1980 - 2020)

  • About the artist

    French abstract artist Jacques Soisson is a painter inspired by many themes, including primal sources, as well as the impact of art therapy as it pertains to children.

    Soisson studies at the École des Beaux-Arts of Montpelier.  In 1966 he begins to work as a child and adolescent art therapist opening various workshops and creates an important collection of paintings and drawings by children and adolescents later donated to the Musee de l'Hospice Saint-Roch in France and is introduced to Jean Dubuffet the inventor of the Art Brut movement. In 1969 he is made member of the Société d'Art Brut created by Jean Dubuffet and Andre Breton in 1941. By 1978 he devotes himself entirely to painting.

    Linked in many ways to the Art Brut movement, Soisson's large compositions on paper are both expressionistic and curiously geometric in nature.

    "Rectangular heads with swirling concentric eyes seem dredged up from archaeological sources, too, though here the inspiration harkens more to the fanciful beings created by children."

  • Quote by George Moos on Soisson art

    "You seem to me to have been like Moses - all things considered - invested with a mission: to revive for our time the very old theogony of a universe where God still left room for the gods ... That a Dubuffet has noticed you so early. and encouraged does not mean that your painting has any relation to "Art Brut". On the contrary, if your inspiration owes everything to instinct, its realization is the work of an artist, a complete visual artist. This is a very elaborate painting, often monumental, always dominated and balanced ..."

    George Moos, was the son of Max Moos son founder of the 

$1,200.00Price
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