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Jean RUSTIN (1928-2013) Anatomy, 1974
Ink drawing (feather) , signed and dated at lower left on paper measuring 37 x 31 cm and its wooden frame measuring 50 x 44 cm (gift) .
Exhibition: Lyon, Le Lutrin, “Rustin. Paintings and drawings,” 21. 01. 1978-16. 02. 1978
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Biography: Jean Rustin, born March 3, 1928 in Montigny-lès-Metz (Moselle) and died in Paris on December 24, 2013, is a French painter.
Jean Rustin is the youngest of five children. In 1939, at the start of World War II, his family takes refuge in the Berry region and then in Poitiers where he begins his secondary education. It is at that time that he learns the violin and takes an interest in drawing. He will play the violin throughout his life and will easily combine the two arts, music and painting, acknowledging that “one can play with colors the way one plays with notes. ”
In 1944, he returns to Metz, passes his baccalaureate and paints his first canvases. In 1947, he leaves Metz for Paris. He enrolls in the Beaux-Arts de Paris and attends Nicolas Untersteller’s studio. He then resides in Clichy.
His beginnings as a painter place him in the figurative style. Watercolor asserts itself as a means of poetic expression. Some of his figurative watercolors depicting Parisian landscapes painted with real sensitivity survive.
From 1947, Jean Rustin is overtaken by non-figurative painting which attracts him to the extent it was conceived in Paris at the time. He joins this movement which would later be called “lyrical abstraction” and acknowledges a debt to action painting.
From 1959 to 1969, he exhibits every year at the Paris gallery La Roue. At the end of this period, he gradually abandons oil for acrylic. In 1971, L’ARC of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris organizes a retrospective of 150 of his paintings and watercolors.
Jean Rustin then finds his painting “too pretty” and “decorative. ” This exhibition profoundly marks his career. From 1971-1972, he works alone in his Bagnolet studio, pursuing an in-depth research. He returns to figuration in uncertain decors. The human figure gradually asserts itself as the sole subject.
Sylvia Bourdon organizes, in Paris at her gallery, the first exhibition devoted to this new period of Rustin, which receives laudatory articles in the press, highlighting the painter’s almost psychiatric universe.
From 1981 to 1986, Rustin exhibits at Isy Brachot’s gallery, located on rue Guénégaud in Paris, which published a series of catalogs.
In 1982, Évelyne Artaud organizes an exhibition of his works at the Maison des Arts of Créteil. The exhibition partly caused a scandal; part of the public expressed discontent in the guestbook, among other reasons, because it could offend the young audience who frequented this place for youth workshops. Entry to the exhibition was then reserved for adults only but was accompanied by an advisory sign, which provoked controversy.
Jean Rustin stubbornly continues to paint on the same subject and does not question his work in any way. He is somewhat neglected by French critics.
In 1992, the Rustin Foundation is created in Antwerp, and the eminent British critic Edward Lucie-Smith dedicates an important monograph to him: his work is linked to that of Lucian Freud.
In 2001, the Halle Saint Pierre houses the third retrospective of his work in France, followed in 2004 by a show of recent works at the Paris City Hall. Jean Rustin finds a French audience again. In 2005, the Frissiras Museum in Athens pays him a retrospective tribute. In 2007, the city of Legnano (near Milan) dedicates a major retrospective to him.
Jean Rustin, “whose powerful work had evolved from lyrical abstraction to a somber figuration” and to a “trajectory that runs counter to the certainties of modernism,” died in Paris on the night of December 23-24, 2013.
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Jean RUSTIN (1928-2013) Anatomy, 1974
Ink drawing (feather) , signed and dated at lower left on paper measuring 37 x 31 cm and its wooden frame measuring 50 x 44 cm (gift) .
Exhibition: Lyon, Le Lutrin, “Rustin. Paintings and drawings,” 21. 01. 1978-16. 02. 1978
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Biography: Jean Rustin, born March 3, 1928 in Montigny-lès-Metz (Moselle) and died in Paris on December 24, 2013, is a French painter.
Jean Rustin is the youngest of five children. In 1939, at the start of World War II, his family takes refuge in the Berry region and then in Poitiers where he begins his secondary education. It is at that time that he learns the violin and takes an interest in drawing. He will play the violin throughout his life and will easily combine the two arts, music and painting, acknowledging that “one can play with colors the way one plays with notes. ”
In 1944, he returns to Metz, passes his baccalaureate and paints his first canvases. In 1947, he leaves Metz for Paris. He enrolls in the Beaux-Arts de Paris and attends Nicolas Untersteller’s studio. He then resides in Clichy.
His beginnings as a painter place him in the figurative style. Watercolor asserts itself as a means of poetic expression. Some of his figurative watercolors depicting Parisian landscapes painted with real sensitivity survive.
From 1947, Jean Rustin is overtaken by non-figurative painting which attracts him to the extent it was conceived in Paris at the time. He joins this movement which would later be called “lyrical abstraction” and acknowledges a debt to action painting.
From 1959 to 1969, he exhibits every year at the Paris gallery La Roue. At the end of this period, he gradually abandons oil for acrylic. In 1971, L’ARC of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris organizes a retrospective of 150 of his paintings and watercolors.
Jean Rustin then finds his painting “too pretty” and “decorative. ” This exhibition profoundly marks his career. From 1971-1972, he works alone in his Bagnolet studio, pursuing an in-depth research. He returns to figuration in uncertain decors. The human figure gradually asserts itself as the sole subject.
Sylvia Bourdon organizes, in Paris at her gallery, the first exhibition devoted to this new period of Rustin, which receives laudatory articles in the press, highlighting the painter’s almost psychiatric universe.
From 1981 to 1986, Rustin exhibits at Isy Brachot’s gallery, located on rue Guénégaud in Paris, which published a series of catalogs.
In 1982, Évelyne Artaud organizes an exhibition of his works at the Maison des Arts of Créteil. The exhibition partly caused a scandal; part of the public expressed discontent in the guestbook, among other reasons, because it could offend the young audience who frequented this place for youth workshops. Entry to the exhibition was then reserved for adults only but was accompanied by an advisory sign, which provoked controversy.
Jean Rustin stubbornly continues to paint on the same subject and does not question his work in any way. He is somewhat neglected by French critics.
In 1992, the Rustin Foundation is created in Antwerp, and the eminent British critic Edward Lucie-Smith dedicates an important monograph to him: his work is linked to that of Lucian Freud.
In 2001, the Halle Saint Pierre houses the third retrospective of his work in France, followed in 2004 by a show of recent works at the Paris City Hall. Jean Rustin finds a French audience again. In 2005, the Frissiras Museum in Athens pays him a retrospective tribute. In 2007, the city of Legnano (near Milan) dedicates a major retrospective to him.
Jean Rustin, “whose powerful work had evolved from lyrical abstraction to a somber figuration” and to a “trajectory that runs counter to the certainties of modernism,” died in Paris on the night of December 23-24, 2013.
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