Luis Mizon (1942-2022). - Composition abstraite - Peintre et Poete Chilien (vendu sans prix de réserve)






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Gouache on paper landscape by Luis Mizon (1942-2022), 1991, original edition, France, titled Composition abstraite - Peintre et Poete Chilien, signed by hand, 32 × 24 cm.
Description from the seller
We present to you this magnificent ink on paper depicting an abstract landscape on paper by the Chilean painter and poet Louis Mizon (1942-2022).
The composition is a lyrical abstraction.
Technique: Chinese ink, gouache on paper
Artist: Chilean, Louis Mizon (1942-2022).
Artwork format: 33 cm x 24 cm
Condition: good. Creases on the edges.
Signed in ink at the bottom left.
For *Louis Mizon* (actually *Luis Mizón*, 1942-2023):
He is a Chilean poet, novelist, painter and translator naturalized French, born January 22, 1942 in Valparaíso.
After studies in history and law and a thesis on Saint-John Perse, he taught at the University of Valparaíso.
Following Pinochet's coup in 1973, he went into exile and arrived in France in 1974, where he worked as a journalist at France-Culture.
Discovered and translated by Roger Caillois and then Claude Couffon, he published about thirty collections (*Poème du Sud* chez Gallimard, *Passage des nuages*...), novels and essays.
A figure of the Printemps des Poètes, he lived between Paris and Draguignan, where he died in late December 2022, with a tribute paid in early January 2023.
Seller's Story
We present to you this magnificent ink on paper depicting an abstract landscape on paper by the Chilean painter and poet Louis Mizon (1942-2022).
The composition is a lyrical abstraction.
Technique: Chinese ink, gouache on paper
Artist: Chilean, Louis Mizon (1942-2022).
Artwork format: 33 cm x 24 cm
Condition: good. Creases on the edges.
Signed in ink at the bottom left.
For *Louis Mizon* (actually *Luis Mizón*, 1942-2023):
He is a Chilean poet, novelist, painter and translator naturalized French, born January 22, 1942 in Valparaíso.
After studies in history and law and a thesis on Saint-John Perse, he taught at the University of Valparaíso.
Following Pinochet's coup in 1973, he went into exile and arrived in France in 1974, where he worked as a journalist at France-Culture.
Discovered and translated by Roger Caillois and then Claude Couffon, he published about thirty collections (*Poème du Sud* chez Gallimard, *Passage des nuages*...), novels and essays.
A figure of the Printemps des Poètes, he lived between Paris and Draguignan, where he died in late December 2022, with a tribute paid in early January 2023.
