ARTIST PROOF LITHOGRAPH BY MENGUY B819 High color artist proof lithograph by MENGUY Frederic Menguy. In orange and red tones with fish decoration Sold as presented, signed in pencil. Frédéric Menguy Frédéric Menguy Born January 28, 1927 20th arrondissement of Paris Died March 23, 2007 (at age 80) Birth name Frédéric, René, Jean, François Menguy Nationality French Artist painter, lithographer Training Normal school for drawing teaching Movement School of Paris Distinctions Prize of the Critic in 1968, Prix Puvis-de-Chavannes in 1985 modify - modify the code - modify Wikidata Frédéric Menguy is a French painter and lithographer born January 28, 1927 in the twentieth arrondissement of Paris, died March 23, 2007. Having lived in Paris , then in Villeneuve-la-Rivière (Pyrénées-Orientales) from 1967, he was enrolled in the School of Paris. Biography [edit | modify the code] Born in Paris in 1927, his parents being Joseph Menguy, electrician, and his wife born Marguerite Petit, Frédéric Menguy is a student of the college of Sarcelles, then of the commercial college of Goussainville (Val d'Oise) 1. Very early on, fascinated by drawing and painting, he trained in evening classes in the workshops of the city of Paris (place des Vosges, then boulevard du Montparnasse while holding a first accounting job in an insurance company (1943-1949). ), then a second only part-time in a position of stockbroker (1950-1951) .2 More in accordance with his vocation, he entered the Normal School of Drawing in 1951 for, obtaining the certificate of aptitude for teaching art drawing teaching1, teaching drawing in 1953. It was in 1956 that Frédéric Menguy gave up his teaching staff to devote himself entirely to his work as a painter, placing himself at the by Bernard Buffet and André Minaux, in this expressionist suite by Francis Gruber, whose somber and miserable painting still expresses the post-war pessimism. 1957 is the year of his first exhibitions3, personal at the Théâtre du Tertre de l ' writer and engraver Georges Charaire, then in the s Parisian fairs 2. In 1958, he married Nicole Allardin.1 The following research into Frédéric Menguy's work first brought him closer to abstract landscape design and evoked Nicolas de Stael. His lithography work began in 1964, before his discovery of the Massif des Corbières region in 1966 made him settle the following year in Villeneuve-la-Rivière where he turned definitively towards colored figuration which went characterize it, in particular with its landscapes with cypress trees and its dreamlike evocations of femininity, the world of the circus, the horse. The photos are an integral part of the description. Dimensions: Width: 21cmLength: 30cm Jereste at your disposal for any questions.