To contemplate a painting by Jacques de Loustal is like an escape. Colorful, fascinating, dreamlike, his paintings illuminate, until January 8, the immaculate walls of the Parisian gallery Huberty Breyne. Passing the threshold of the gallery, the electrifying gaze of a mysterious woman painted in an exotic landscape engages the visitor on a peregrination where time stands still. A preamble to some forty works crossed by the travels, the readings and the masters with which the artist was impregnated to compose these penetrating atmospheres which made his notoriety.
Along with his introspective comic books and his illustrations adorning the columns of prestigious magazines, like the
New Yorker
, or the novels of Simenon, Loustal also deploys his talent in painting.
His inspirers?
Hockney, Matisse, Gauguin, Beckmann, Dix, Modigliani, Moebius, Druillet ...
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of Fred Bernard and Loustal: a diamond as big as the Ritz
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