Yves Brayer : Catalogue Raisonné De L'oeuvre Peint Volume 1 : 1925-1960

The painter, engraver, illustrator and theatre designer Yves Brayer (1907-1990) was one of the painters who, between the two world wars, felt the need to focus on the reality around them. These painters rejected, but did not ignore, the pictorial movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and were more followers of Vuillard and Bonnard, such as the Réalité Poétique group, or admirers of Courbet, such as the Forces Nouvelles movement. Although Brayer always remained independent, he counted among his friends Francis Gruber, who was at the origin of the French Nouveau Réalisme of the 1950s.

This first volume of the catalogue raisonné of the Mediterranean painter brings together all the paintings that Yves Brayer produced between 1925 and 1960. It includes his first important paintings from 1927, his series of urban landscapes from 1930 to 1943 during his Italian period, his works related to his travels in Spain, Morocco, Greece and Constantinople, and his landscapes of Provence and the Camargue painted from 1945 onwards.