Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Banks Fine Arts presents: Thibèsart

By Pegasus News wire

Banks Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Thibèsart, an exclusive showing of the noted French painter, Raymond Thibèsart’s antique collected paintings highlighting the hypnotic French countryside beginning Monday, October 15 through October 30, 2007. Thibèsart’s canvases in this exhibition are filled with quaint villages, his signature flowering trees from springtime in France and the famed Côte d’ Azure.

Son of an affluent family, Raymond Thibèsart was born in the medieval French village of Bar-Sur-Aube, May 2, 1874. His family moved to the city of Enghien which is near Paris. This is where his family met the gifted Venezuelan Impressionist painter Emile Boggio. Boggio, who was 17 years Thibèsart’s senior, gave Raymond his first art lessons at the age of eleven. Thibèsart furthered his art studies at the Lycée Rollin in Paris where he entered the l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1894 and later to the Acadèmie Julian. His teachers Jules Lefevre and Tony Robert Fleury introduced him to the movement of "Symbolism", which influenced the early part of the artist’s career.

When Boggio settled in 1902 in Vaux-sur-Seine, Raymond Thibèsart followed him in 1903. They traveled to Italy to

paint with another great friend, the painter Henri Martin. From this time on, Thibèsart worked in the Post-Impressionist style. He often traveled to Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Corsica to record the landscape. Without rest and with great enthusiasm he sketched in pastel the light, the passage of the wind, the flowering trees, the mornings of white frost or snow, the agricultural work, and the aura of the Seine. In the tranquility of his workshop, these colored chalk drawings allowed him to execute oil paintings that preserved all the spontaneity of the subject with a touch of something more.

Thibèsart first exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris where he was chosen as a Silver Medalist in 1922 and later at the Salon des Independants and the Salon d’Automne. Thibèsart was a member of the DES Artistes Francais de Societe and also a member of the Indépendants de DES de salon. . His works are found in the public and private collections of the Salon des Artistes Francais, the Contemporary Art Gallery, Paris, Gallery Georges Petit, Paris and the Galerie des Champs-Elysees.

Thibèsart opens to the public October 15, 2007 and runs through October 30, 2007. Antique paintings by other French landscapists including Edouard Leon Cortes, Jules R. Herve, Pierre Gaston Rigaud and Jean Rigaud and Andre Hambourg are also available at Banks Fine Art.

Source: Banks Fine Art

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