JEAN-PAUL & SUZY BRUNET (1942-1996) & (BORN 1940) - - Lot 9

JEAN-PAUL & SUZY BRUNET (1942-1996) & (BORN 1940) - ATELIER PALÈGRE Le Bombyx Spectacular sculpture. Stoneware proof. Circa 1970. Signed BRUNET on the base. Height: 87cm - Length: 85cm - Depth: 30cm Minor accidents and scattered chips. Provenance: Galerie Martial Duvert: Galerie Martial Duvert. Exhibition: Atelier Palègre - Galerie Duvert, Crest, from July to September 2023. Our work exhibited at this event. Bibliography: Atelier Palègre - Catalogue of the exhibition held at Galerie Duvert, Crest, from July to September 2023. Our work reproduced on page 33 on an old photograph showing the artist couple in front of our work. Behind the name Atelier Palègre lie two artists, Jean-Paul and Suzy Brunet - a couple who trained at the École d'Art de Valence during their studies. After completing their training, they opened their studio together in Ponsas (Drôme), where they initially devoted themselves to a highly successful utilitarian production. It was in the 1970s that Jean-Paul decided to turn his attention to artistic creation, freeing himself from functional pieces, and creating rough, sometimes monumental sculptures, with a play of voids and ruptures in the material.