ROBERT COMBAS (NE EN 1957) Résultats Impressionist and Modern Art - Contemporary… Lot n° 107

SANS TITRE (EVEQUE), 1989
Acrylic on canvas, brush and wood
Signed and dated on the right side
109 x 92 x 17 cm - 42.91 x 36.22 x 6.69 in.
Acrylic on canvas, paint brush and wood
Signed and dated on the right hand side
Provenance:
- Galerie Beaubourg, Paris
- Private collection, Bordeaux
The authenticity of this work has been kindly confirmed by the Atelier Robert Combas
Religion constitutes another major entry: the great themes of Catholicism, but also Buddhism and a very personal form of mysticism, which permeates the work from the 1990s to today, notably through the proofreading of texts (...). Often paintings come in series. For example, the artist talks about the genesis of the exhibition on the theme of the fall in 2010 at Galerie Guy Pieters, inspired by Milton's great religious epic poem, Le Paradis perdu de Milton (1667), which had a great influence on English and French romantics:"[...] I came across 19th century engravings that illustrated the French version of John Milton's "paradise perdu". I was looking for a subject for this exhibition and I thought that the work I had started was going well with this theme and that the theme was going well with the times. So I immersed myself in John Milton's book and especially in the illustrations of this book by the engravers of the 19th century and then by the painters like Bosch, Brueghel, Rubens who dealt with this subject." (Robert Combas) (Extract from the press kit, Greatest Hits, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, 2012)