Rene Bro - René BRÔ (1930-1986) - "femme avec Grue" olieverf ca 1950 gesigneerd - Sold

Schilder : René BRÔ (1930-1986)
Titel/Voorstelling : " Femme avec Grue  "
Datering : ca. 1950
Medium / Techniek : olieverf op papier
Maten : 23 x 14 cm ( papier ) en 37 x 28 (ingelijst)
Gesigneerd : rechtsonder 
Conditie : goed

René Brô was born in Charenton outside Paris. After finishing his schooling in 1944 by the age of fourteen, he began study art at different art schools. Parallelly he supported himself as a commercial artist. In the late 1940s, he was a frequent visitor to Musée de l'Homme and Louvre. He was in particularly attracted to primitive art and to the art of ancient Egypt. Brô's works of this period - pottery, drawings and paintings – are close to the works of Paul Klee or to that which Jean Dubuffet characterized as art brut.

In 1949 René Brô was exhibiting for the first time, at a joint exhibition in Paris. Afterwards he hitchhiked to Italy. During this trip he got to know the two years older Austrian painter Hundertwasser who was on the move too; they were to be lifelong friends. Soon after their return to France in 1950, they jointly grappled with mural painting on the walls of a pavilion of the family Dumage where Hundertwasser stayed in Saint-Mandé outside Paris. Many years later, when this building was to be torn down in 1964, the two murals were saved from the demolition. One of them, La pêche miraculeuse (The miraculous draught), is now in KunstHausWien, Hundertwasser's own museum in Vienna. The other wall, Paradis - Pays des hommes, oiseaux et navires (Paradise - Land of men, of trees, birds and ships) came to a synagogue on Long Island, New York, where it was removed in 2008.

These two friends went separate ways, got married, Brô had kids and both were engaged in their own artistic projects, but accompanied each other on trips throughout the years, in North Africa, Mexico, India, Nepal, Polynesia. In 1957 and for some years ahead they even shared a studio in the old French village Courgeron of the municipality Le Pin-au-Haras, Basse-Normandie, a location which at least Brô returned to all his life.

1954 René Brô had his first one-man exhibition in Paris. Ten years later, in 1964, he was invited to represent France at the Venice Biennial. In 1968 he even set up a studio in Venice where he subsequently was active during a decade.

He had many successful exhibitions around Europe and the world in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1984 he spent several months in Tahiti, where he had a show at Musée Gauguin. He returned two years later and then withdrew to his mansion in the Norman Courgeron and died there most unexpectedly at the age of 56