André Brasilier. Visites

In 1929, André Brasilier was born in Saumur (Anjou). Brasilier comes from a long line of painters and spent much of his childhood growing up in Meigné-le-Vicomte. Brasilier studied at Saint-Louis de Saumur Collège and at Collège de Saint-Erembert in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1949, Brasilier became a student of Maurice Brianchon at l'Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris.

Brasilier received the first of many awards, The Florence Blumenthal Prize in 1952. The following year he was awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome and lived and worked at the Villa Medicis until 1957. His professional career had been launched – it was then that he could live through his art and “this was a privilege”. After extensive travels throughout Europe, Brasilier had his first one man show at Galerie Drouet in Paris in 1959, with subsequent exhibitions in New York, Tokyo and Caracas. Like Picasso, he spent much time in Vallauris, executing ceramics and had an exhibition of this work in 1979. In 1980, the artist had his first retrospective at the Château de Chenonceau in France, and in 1992, Jacques Chirac organized an exhibition entitled, “Brasilier at Bagatelle”, in conjunction with the release of his Catalogue Raisonne of lithographs. His last major exhibition was held at the Château de Vascoeuil, in Normandy in the summer of 1996. Brasilier's recognition has been championed by exhibitions worldwide. Currently, his more recent paintings are exhibited at Wally Findlay Galleries, New York and Wally Findlay Galleries/Bruton Street Gallery, London, England.