Gustave Singier (1909-1984) - baigneuse nocturne

Gustave SINGIER (1909 - 1984)
Original Lithograph 1970
Nocturnal Bather
Format 45 × 52 cm on paper 56 × 76 cm
175 copies on Arches Velin white paper, No. 1 to 175
Small stain on the visible edge shown in the photo.
SINGIER was born on February 11, 1909, in WARNETON (Belgium). Naturalized French, he lives
PARIS since 1919. He begins painting in 1923, at the age of 14. For three years, he
He studied at the École Boulle. Then, he paints a lot from nature. Up to 1936, he
is a draftsman in a shopfitting company, but he continues to paint. Simul-
Gradually, he begins to exhibit in salons and galleries and participates in a great many.
group exhibitions, around the world. Solo exhibitions in PARIS, Gallery of
France; Stockholm, Galerie Blanche; Brussels, Galerie Appolo; Turin, Galerie Lattes;
several museums in Germany in 1957; Rome, Gallery "Il segno"; New York, Gallery
Chalette, etc. From 1951 to 1954, he was a painting professor at the RENSON Academy. SINGIER
has also produced many works for the State and various local authorities: paintings mu-
rales, tapestries (Institut Français des Langues de Londres, Mobilier National, Cour de Cassation
from Paris, etc.) stained glass windows, mosaics, numerous theatre costumes, notably for the T.N.P.
His works are in the greatest collections as well as in numerous museums that it would be
too long to enumerate.
SINGIER has always practiced the art of oil painting and watercolor as well as that of
Etching and lithography. Whatever technique is used, he excels at making it vibrate.
subtle color modulations, all in nuances, tone-on-tone, transparency and contrasts.
luminous. He draws from nature, but afterward, whether he paints or engraves, he adds invention.
Moreover. So much so that his work is halfway between dream and fiction. SINGIER is considered,
in France and abroad, as one of the greatest non-figurative artists of our time.
BIBLIOGRAPHY SUMMARY: Burin engraving for 'quatrain' by Camille BOURNI-
QUEL, texts and illustrations engraved with a burin. - SINGIER, “Watercolor Painting” Gallery of
France - March 1961 - SINGIER, « Painting and Drawing » Galerie de France - November 1961 -
... as far as nature is concerned, my aim is not to imitate it nor to draw inspiration from it directly,
but rather to find a correspondence between the feeling I have of reality and the possibility
"that I have to express this feeling in my painting". Singier.