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Eugène Leroy

Eugène Leroy (1910 - 2000) was active/lived in France.  Eugene Leroy is known for Non objective, expressive paintings, nudes, heads, and still life.

Eugène Leroy spent most of his career in rural isolation and relative obscurity until the 1980s, when figurative painting came back into vogue and his distinctive if somewhat conservative painting style became increasingly recognized both in his native France and overseas.  Working for months and sometimes years on canvases whose paint surfaces are so obsessively thick that their images -mostly nudes, heads and still lifes- are virtually obliterated.

It is apparent that Leroy is not concerned with the ideological separation of figuration and abstraction.  His motives are neither resolved by absolute unrepresentationalism nor are they specifically recognizable.  The painted is only a resonance of the extra-pictorial.  But precisely because of this, these works perhaps move closer to reality than Leroy's early tangible works.

His nudes, portraits, landscapes or the man on the cross do not stand isolated for him, but are directly connected   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2066 characters.]  Artist bio

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