Toubon Guy (French 1931) - Les Tambours De Valmy

35 x 45.5 inches

framed: 42.5 x 53 inches

oil on canvas

1989

Biography
Toubon Guy, born in Marseille in 1931. Painter, draftsman, printmaker, filing cabinet (tapestries) sculptor in his spare time. Toubon is a painter of land, the city, the sea curve Toubon over fifty years, part of the city, exits and returns to the city of his birth.
Different backgrounds to attract early. He travels, sketchbook in hand, at 17, Spain, other holidays follow, Northern Italy, Tunisia, Yugoslavia, The graving dock, the old, disappeared from Marseille panorama, retain its importance in the pictorial universe Toubon: it will draw poetry, power, a view of humanity.
In 1962, returning to Marseille, he will many exhibitions at various merchants and get some prices in manisfestations - Price Sausset Cimaise Pernod - who abide among the "young painters Marseilles."
Temperament Toubon later burst onto the Cevennes earth, during his stay in Ardaillers. The artist is revealed in full in a table with blue, this tripling by the three kingdoms, but also by the extended tapestry, sculpture by the extended composition, total investment of time and space through technical drawing affirmed and ripened, and result in a painting: the Toubon.
The call of the Old Port in Marseille brought in 1984 by a pendulum, after ten years Cevennes. He will present the gallery Berlioz (Marseille then Sausset-les-Pins) shows where he found happiness with his young love end of the platform and Corsica, Venice, Italy. Patient work, simplicity, quick look, these are the essential qualities of Toubon and his painting, a strong and modest painting.
His workshop was set at Sausset-les-Pins in 1987. His writer friends of art, André Alauzen Claude Darras and consider it as "expressionist south." Guy Toubon sets in Provence, Paris, Côte d'Azur, Brittany ... and abroad: in Germany (Ettlingen), USA (New York, San Francisco, Saussalito, Carmel, Boston, Houston).
He scored his 2005 "50 Years of Painting" by retrospectives in Martigues and La Ciotat. The complete sculpture long work as a painter and draftsman, as an essential adjuvant and ceramics (wall hangings in Marseille, Sausset-les-Pins and Porticiollo Corsica).
2009 - 2010 was a turning point in the work of the great Provencal painter GUY TOUBON. Permanently exposed to Mougins, Houston and other cities in the U.S. (Boston, San Francisco, New York, Carmel) for 20 years, and Sausset les Pins, near Marseille.
His retrospective at the Espace Villeneuve Bargemon Marseille 80 iconic paintings of his work continued at Paris, rue de Seine.
In 2009, following his meeting with the Chinese painter ZHOU Shichao, passionate like him by the same lights, seaside towns, their chromatic flicker was born a friendly dynamics. It is in this perspective that is the Franco-Chinese exchange between the two painters whose originality and writing together, between dream and reality. The dream pictorial Toubon, served by a safe technique, resulting in a rare poetic pleasure, that of a "expressionist South" facing the Chinese became enamored of Marseille. (GM)

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