Guy Olivier - Femme qui fume, uniek werk (mooi gelijst)

Artist: Guy Olivier Size: 37 x 25.5 Frame size: 48 x 30 Hand signed: Yes, bottom right Frame: Light wooden frame and passepartout Date:1997 Technique: Mixed media (watercolor paint and India ink) No shipping to non-EU countries
Few Dutch artists can express so visually and accurately the French and French-speaking sense of life as it exists among the Dutch and Belgians, or fuel that longing for it among the French neighbors to the north. Méditerranée so blue, so blue. The Maastricht-born visual artist Guy Olivier brings that same feeling, that light-footedness, that lasciviousness and that lifestyle of the South to the canvas. But not primarily sweet, sweet or like in a holiday brochure. With Guy Olivier it always manifests itself with an absurdist wink or with a grotesque enlargement and almost always with a culinary reference or undertone: white arms of girls like boudins blancs, red pouty mouths that have secretly already been drinking the fraises-glaces sauce, pairs of eyes that rarely looking in the same direction - the plunging necklines and rues d'amour are too deep for that, the ice cream sundaes too creamy and seductive, and the company too diverse. You're short of eyes. Of course, with such an overwhelming work (Guy Olivier certainly does not shy away from the large format and intense use of colour), you cannot avoid looking at examples, predecessors and possible sources of inspiration. And then you should think of the grotesque heads and carnivalesque outfits in particular of the drawings by James Ensor, the café scenes are related to those of Otto Dix and his round and egg-shaped heads also appear in the work of Georg Grosz. And of course Toulouse-Lautrec, as the visual chronicler of Parisian nightlife. But what distinguishes him from these artists, which is typical of Guy Olivier's work, is both his powerful tube-lining - he sometimes applies a number of powerful lines directly from the paint tube to the layers of paint, which give the whole a great dynamic and the using paint in layers in a way that makes it look like fondant. The interest of galleries and art lovers from home and abroad is great and his work has since been included in the collections of big names.