Yves Brayer : Catalogue Raisonné De L'oeuvre Peint Volume 2 : 1961-1990

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 second volume of the catalogue raisonné covers the period from 1961 to 1990, the year of his death. It includes in particular his paintings done in Baux-de-Provence and in the Camargue, during his stays in Paris and his numerous trips to Europe and the United States. During this period, Yves Brayer prepared exhibitions in France and abroad, as far as Japan and New York, and worked on his engraved work, which complements and extends his oils and watercolours.