GUY REINAULD (1906 - 1993): BIOGRAPHY Guy... - Lot 247 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Nevers

GUY REINAULD (1906 - 1993): BIOGRAPHY Guy Reinauld's works are sold in aid of cancer research, through the Institut Curie. November 10, 1906: birth in Noyon. His father soon became architect for the town of Compiègne. 1918: He loses his godmother to Spanish flu, and then his mother. He moves to Paris, where he takes drawing classes before becoming an actor. He performed in Paris and toured the provinces, North Africa and Belgium with the Cie des Galas Karsenty. 1940: taken prisoner, he escaped after just a few days in captivity. He spent the rest of the war as a teacher of literature, geography, theater and horseback riding at a college that housed both gifted and problematic students and many hidden children. He gave Michel Piccoli, Michel Auclair and many others their first stage roles. The school moved several times in an attempt to remain in the free zone. 50s-70s: in the Alps, where he lives with his family, he discovers a special light. 80s-90s: retired to the Nièvre region, he left his studio only for gardening and horse-riding in the forest. EXHIBITIONS : Briançon, La Salle-les-Alpes, Nevers, Prémery, Biennale de Bourges... Photographer, painter, actor... Born at the dawn of the 20th century into a modest family in a small town in the Oise region of France, Guy Reinauld has practiced countless trades, all of which he has pursued for the pleasure of discovery. Actor, teacher of literature, drawing, theater or horseback riding, hotelier and restaurateur... one passion has never left him: colors. He spent his life exploring them, varying techniques, media and sources of inspiration. Initially enamored of photography and drawing, his daily relationship with painting really began when he was an actor and broke, and spent his days in galleries, "those free museums", dreaming that one day he might be able to afford a Modigliani. "It was only worth a month's fee", but he would have had to go without food for a whole month! He drew his inspiration from the palette of his masters - Juan Gris, Vlaminck or Cocteau - and from the landscapes around him, particularly those of the Hautes-Alpes, where he settled with his family in the 50s, then from the Nièvre, from the 80s onwards. He likes oil and gouache, and tries his hand at watercolor, etching and pastel, before moving on to collages, trichloretylene transfers (based on magazine cut-outs), acrylics and batiks on silk. A music fanatic, he also found inspiration in the relief of Bach or Brahms compositions, which he transcribed in his wood collages in volume. He loved this tactile technique, in which he also took on abstract projects. Guy Reinauld painted until the end of his life in his last studio, which overlooked the Nivernais countryside and whose floor tiles still retain traces of blue and red.