Emile Bel(1941 - 2022) - Tranches de pasteque (Vendu sans prix de réserve)

We present to you this beautiful little oil on canvas depicting slices of watermelon, by the artist Émile Bellet (1941–2022).

The composition, very colorful and built from large juxtaposed flat areas, features a sliced watermelon in the foreground, rendered with a generous knife-applied texture. The background, cut into bold geometric zones, contrasts with the fruit's organic curve, in a style directly inherited from Fauvism.

Artist: Émile Bellet (1941–2022)

Title: Tranches de Pastèque

Technique: Oil on canvas

Signature: Signed "Bellet" at the bottom right

Format: 16 x 22 cm

Good condition, cracks visible

Émile Bellet, born in 1941 in Provence and died on July 1, 2022 in Touët sur Var, was a French painter whose work is directly inspired by Matisse and Chagall. A precocious prodigy, he began painting at the age of five and won a first prize in a national art magazine at only twelve; his first solo exhibition took place in 1960. Discovered by Galerie Guigne in 1976, he notably created the stained glass windows of the church Notre Dame de Bon Voyage in Port de Bouc in 1978. His career took on an international dimension thanks to a forty-year worldwide exclusive partnership with Park West Gallery in the United States, which dedicates a permanent exhibition space to him.