Original lithograph signed and numbered Paul AMBILLE - Sailboats

Paul Ambille

Paul AMBILLE was born in 1930 in Beziers. A student at the Fine Arts (especially in the workshop of Edouard Goerg, the expressionist), he won the First Prize of Rome in 1955, which earned him the next four years at the Villa Medicis.

Champion of Medals and other Grand Prizes (he received more than a hundred), Painter of the Navy, President of the Taylor Foundation until 2007, member of the State's purchasing commission, Paul AMBILLE is, above all, a painter with astonishing evocative sweetness.

Whether he stands as the master of the spinnaker running on the whitened crest of the wave, always seeking the lifting wind, or as a connoisseur of the rider merging with his mount for the final straight, he offers us the same talent: classic, eloquent, generous. Because this great art historian has known, from the beginning, how to integrate the modernity of the "abstraction-figuration" encounter initiated, in particular, by De Staël, into his natural classicism.

Working towards a simplification of the different pictorial planes by adding chromatic nuances as the primary language, he then unites his palette with the movement so that his painting becomes the evanescent explosion of a gentle figurative meeting with a meaningful abstraction. An ode to the poetry of the moment in soft colors, in refined lines, an invitation to an adventure as much internal and intimate as external and exploratory. He passed away on July 5, 2010, in Arette. © Natacha PELLETIER for PASSION ESTAMPES

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