Art print FREMOND - Sunny Afternoon - 80 x 60 cm

Main works

The Great Fever (1986, comic album), The Book of My Sea (2019), The World Without Ravel (2019)

Artistic movements

Onirisme, Literary Realism

Inspiration, influence

Johannes Vermeer (light and simplicity of forms)
Patrick Modiano (literary inspiration)
Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis)
Maurice Ravel (music)

His contemporaries

Artists and comic book authors from the 1980s, such as those published in Pilote and L’Écho des savanes.

To keep in mind

Denis Frémond, born in Le Havre into a wealthy family, received a Calvinist education. After studying at the École Boulle in Paris, he briefly turned away from painting to focus on drama before definitively returning to painting in 1976. He first explored a whimsical style, gaining recognition in the 1980s as a press illustrator and comic book author, notably for Pilote and L’Écho des savanes. In 1991, Frémond dedicated himself exclusively to painting, influenced by Johannes Vermeer, whose unique use of light inspires his work. His pieces, often compared to novels by Patrick Modiano for their familiar oddness and nostalgia, are imbued with dreamlike qualities, combining real elements to create subtly unreal scenes. Among his other notable influences are Sigmund Freud and Maurice Ravel, the latter being particularly referenced in his painting "Portrait en Gaspard de la nuit," a tribute to Ravel's famous piano triptych.