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François Boucheix

François Boucheix (Born 1940) was active/lived in France.  Francois Boucheix is known for Painting; sculpture.

François Boucheix was born in 1940 in an isolated farm in the heart of Auvergne. At fifteen, following the death of his father, which marked him deeply, François was forced to leave school to work. Very quickly, he devoted his free time to painting, until late at night, and developed a passion for surrealist painters. In 1960, conscript, he took with him canvases and brushes to Tunisia. After a few months, he was invited to exhibit his works at the Cercle des officers: François Boucheix was 20 years old, this was his first exhibition. Forced to return to France without his paintings, he distributed most of them to his comrades and to the officers with whom he sympathized, keeping only four who would pass through Tunisian customs as best they could. In 1964, responding to an advertisement in the newspaper l'Aurore, François Boucheix went to Paris and went to the Sèvres gallery to present his work. Bernard Bellaïche was immediately seduced by the originality of his style, and made   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1962 characters.]  Artist bio

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