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Yves Brayer
French painter born in Versailles in 1907. He has been drawing and painting since his childhood.
He died in 1990 and is buried in les Baux de Provence where the YVES BRAYER MUSEUM will be inaugurated in September 1991.
Strongly attracted by mediterranean landscapes, Provence and Camargue will remain his favorite places until the end of his life.
Yves Brayer studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bourges and then at that of Paris. After stays in Spain in 1927 and Morocco in 1928, he won the Prix de Rome and stayed at the Villa Medici from 1930 to 1934.
After his Spanish black period, then Italian ocher and red, he diversified his palette by introducing greens, pale yellows and some blues. Although Provence and the Camargue remain his base, he is strongly attracted by the Mediterranean landscapes. He returns to paint regularly in his favorite countries: Italy and Spain as well as Portugal and the Canaries. His thirst for discovery and travel leads him to visit Greece, Egypt, Iran, Israel as well as Mexico, the United States, Japan and Russia.
As a tireless draftsman, he never leaves his sketch pads of different sizes and witnesses the landscapes and atmospheres he passes through. His drawings of the day are immediately treated with watercolors in the evening upon arriving at the hotel with the fresh colors that he still remembers.
Died in 1990, he is buried in Les Baux de Provence where the Yves BRAYER museum will be inaugurated in September 1991.
He is present in various museums and in numerous collections both in France and abroad. He was a professor at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière for fifty years, President of the Salon d'Automne for five years, and, as a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, curator of the Marmottan-Claude Monet Museum in Paris for more than eleven years.
Un nouveau regard au Musée Brayer
02/06/2020
Article : La Provence
Editor Isabelle Appy
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26/03/2010
Article : Yves BRAYER en noir et blanc
Editor Lydia Harambourg
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01/09/2009
Article : Yves Brayer Compagnon de route
Editor Emmanuelle Tenailleau
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Editions des Falaises - Février 2020 - Préface de Dominique Bona
160 pages - 28 x 21 cm
19 €
> More detailsYves Brayer - Provence, Camargue, Côte d'Azur, Cordes sur Ciel
Editions des Falaises - Avril 2022 - Préface de Patrick de Carolis
136 pages - 28 x 21 cm
20 €
> More detailsYves Brayer - Travels
Préface de Jean-Louis Etienne
Editions des Falaises - Mai 2024 - 136 pages
24 €
> More detailsPoster Yves Brayer "Provence Camargue Côte d'Azur Codes-sur-Ciel"
From 2022/10/14 to 2022/11/14Poster Yves Brayer "Un nouveau regard"
From 2020/10/15 to 2020/11/15Poster Yves Brayer "Yves Brayer and Spain"
From 2018/10/11 to 2018/11/11Poster Yves Brayer
From 2016/10/08 to 2016/11/08Poster Yves Brayer "Before Rome"
From 2014/10/08 to 2014/11/08