Saint Moreil

Saint Moreil  is a original pencil drawing on paper, realized around 1960's by the French artist  André Roland Brudieux  (1921-1999).

Monogrammed  in pencil  "AB “ on the lower margin at the center.

Representing a tree trunk in front of a fence, with a rapid and talended sign, this modern artwork was realized in the  native land of the artist , as the notes in pencil and on the back reports:  "St Moreil".

 In very good conditions, including a cardboard passepartout (cm 49 x 34).

André Roland Brudieux  (Saint-Moreil, Creuse, France, 1921 – Paris, 1999)

The French artist spent his youth in Vendôme, in the departement of  Loire-et-Cher , where he worked as a wallpaper stenciller. In 1939 he began to engrave and, in 1941, moved to Paris, studing at the  École du Louvre  between 1945-1957.

Talented draftsman and sensitive artist, André Roland Brudieux was a member of  Surrealist mouvement , gravitating around André Breton and participating in Surrealist exhibitions in 1950. He also began to experiment the woodcut technique in 1997. Best-known as engraver or draftsman of natural landscapes, he was also a writer, who attended the great Parisian salons, and a collector of old wallpapers and artwork.