Claude Weisbuch (1927-2014) - Violoncelliste

Claude Weisbuch (1927-2014), French artist.
Title of the work: Violoncellist. Pencil and chalk drawing.
Image size: 28 x 37 cm
Framing size: 47 x 55 cm
Signature at bottom right in pencil.
Provenance: L'estampe 31 quai des Bateliers 67000 Strasbourg: Purchase invoice dated 23/10/2006
Work in excellent condition
Framed under glass.
Delivered with copy of the purchase invoice from the company "L'estampe"
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Work
His work is essentially devoted to engraving[7], by which he likes to translate, through line, the life, movement and character of his subjects: Punch and Judy figures, harlequins, musicians or equestrian scenes. For Patrick Waldberg, “the man appears as an obsessive theme in Weisbuch’s work, whether he strives to capture him in the mirror by contemplating his own image, whether he catches him in the features of his visitors, or again whether he attempts to decipher him in the masters of old whom he venerates, Jacques Callot, Rembrandt or Honoré Daumier”[8]. While he practices various techniques (lithography, etching, etc.) that he puts at the service of illustrating books for bibliophiles, he is also a painter and draftsman. His favored colors are ochres, browns and whites, with which he seeks to introduce light effects through compositions where the line and the finesse of drawing preserve the life found in his engravings.

His precise and dynamic line releases a work full of movement and swirling on themes he favors: theater, opera, the equestrian milieu, musicians, card players, Kabuki dancers as well as many portraits. His works have the appearance of unfinished sketches, mixing little color but with great vitality of the line[.]

Awards and distinctions

Grand Prize for drawing of the magazine Le Peintre (jointly with Jean-Jacques Morvan), 1956
Critics’ Prize, 1961
Knight of the Legion of Honor Knight of the Legion of Honor, 1997
Title of “living god” received from the Emperor of Japan

Public collections in France
Museum of the Horse, Château de Chantilly, Le Cheval, etchings for the eponymous work by Leo Tolstoy, 1982
Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse
Municipal Library of Nancy
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes:
Department of Prints and Photography of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris:
Musée national d'Art moderne, Paris
National Contemporary Art Foundation, Puteaux:
Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1974
Musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Saint-Étienne:
Cabinet of Prints and Drawings of Strasbourg

Abroad

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
National Museum of South Australia, Adelaide
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels
Gaspar Museum, collections of the Institute of Archaeology of Luxembourg
United States
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art of Skopje
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
National Museum in Krakow
Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi (pl), Łódź
National Museum in Warsaw
Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade
Göteborgs konstmuseum
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne