Jean Breant (1922 - 1984) - Océan






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Oil on canvas titled Océan by Jean Breant (1922–1984), a 16.5 × 22 cm painting (25 × 31 cm with frame) in excellent condition, from France, Post-Impressionism, original edition, signed by hand.
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Jean BREANT (1922 - 1984)
Ocean
Oil on canvas
Dimensions of the painting: 16.5 x 22 cm
Signed at the bottom left.
In very good condition.
Antique frame with signs of wear FREE
Dimensions with frame: 25 x 31 cm
Original artwork delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Fast, careful, and insured shipping.
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Jean Bréant (1922–1984) was a Norman painter and lithographer whose work is part of the Rouen School lineage, while affirming a singular voice. Born in Rouen on February 17, 1922, he reveals very early a double artistic vocation: music, which he studies seriously at the Maîtrise Saint-Evode, and painting, which he discovers in childhood. Although he reaches the level of a concert performer, it is ultimately painting that asserts itself as his true inner language.
Trained notably at the Rouen School of Fine Arts and influenced by the masters of Norman post-impressionism, Bréant develops a body of work in which sensation takes precedence over strict representation. His paintings, often inhabited by expressive human figures, Norman landscapes, or symbolic compositions, combine the vigor of the gesture with inner tenderness. He seeks less to reproduce reality than to reveal its emotional charge, drawing from his memories and from a fertile imagination themes with sometimes surprising variations.
Winner of the Prix de la Société des Artistes Normands in 1961, he regularly exhibited and earned the esteem of his peers. His work, marked by great freedom and profound humanity, continues today to move through its sincerity and intensity. Jean Bréant passed away in 1984, leaving behind a rich, vibrant pictorial universe deeply rooted in the Norman light.
Seller's Story
Jean BREANT (1922 - 1984)
Ocean
Oil on canvas
Dimensions of the painting: 16.5 x 22 cm
Signed at the bottom left.
In very good condition.
Antique frame with signs of wear FREE
Dimensions with frame: 25 x 31 cm
Original artwork delivered with invoice and certificate of authenticity.
Fast, careful, and insured shipping.
Buy with confidence!
Jean Bréant (1922–1984) was a Norman painter and lithographer whose work is part of the Rouen School lineage, while affirming a singular voice. Born in Rouen on February 17, 1922, he reveals very early a double artistic vocation: music, which he studies seriously at the Maîtrise Saint-Evode, and painting, which he discovers in childhood. Although he reaches the level of a concert performer, it is ultimately painting that asserts itself as his true inner language.
Trained notably at the Rouen School of Fine Arts and influenced by the masters of Norman post-impressionism, Bréant develops a body of work in which sensation takes precedence over strict representation. His paintings, often inhabited by expressive human figures, Norman landscapes, or symbolic compositions, combine the vigor of the gesture with inner tenderness. He seeks less to reproduce reality than to reveal its emotional charge, drawing from his memories and from a fertile imagination themes with sometimes surprising variations.
Winner of the Prix de la Société des Artistes Normands in 1961, he regularly exhibited and earned the esteem of his peers. His work, marked by great freedom and profound humanity, continues today to move through its sincerity and intensity. Jean Bréant passed away in 1984, leaving behind a rich, vibrant pictorial universe deeply rooted in the Norman light.
