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Robert Combas

Robert Combas (Born 1957) is active/lives in France.  Robert Combas is known for Painting and sculpture.

Robert Combas is a French painter and sculptor, born May 25, 1957 in Lyon, France and now living and working in Paris.

He is widely recognized as a progenitor of the figuration libre movement that began in Paris around 1980 as a reaction to the art establishment in general and minimalism and conceptual art in particular.

Figuration libre is often regarded as having roots in Fauvism and Expressionism and is linked to contemporary movements such as Bad Painting and Neo-expressionism. It draws on pop cultural influences such as graffiti, cartoons and rock music in an attempt to produce a more varied, direct and honest reflection of contemporary society, often satirizing or critiquing its excesses.

Combas' own work has always been strongly rooted in depictions of the human figure. The figures are often in wild, violent or orgiastic settings. Usually on large, often un-stretched canvases, Combas crowds his flat pictorial space with a teeming proliferation of bodies, str   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5707 characters.]  Artist bio

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Chapeauté De Frais Rouge et Bleuet, 2002

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A PET HIT PARADE ! - 1986

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ÇA GROUILLE, ÇA ARRACHE LES GENCIVES EN SANG AU TROMPETTISTE, ET CRAPEAU LE GUITAREU ET MIMI LE BAPTISTE ! , 1988

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Portrait d'Achille , 1988

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Massacre, 1992

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HOMMAGE TO THE EIFFEL TOWER , 1997

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Lot 245
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