Antonio SEGUI (1934-2022) - Lot 33

Antonio SEGUI (1934-2022) Alleys - Returns Pastel and charcoal on canvas, signed and dated 79 bottom center, titled and dated on reverse. 200 x 200 cm Related work : Parc aux aveugles, pastel on canvas, 200 x 200 cm, Musée art moderne, Paris. Exhibitions: - Antonio Seguí. Parques Nocturnos Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, October 24 - November 25 1979; - Antonio Seguí: Un Regard Nocturne, Centre Culturel de l'Aérospatiale Aérospatiale, Toulouse, January-February 1984. Bibliography: - Antonio Seguí. Parques Nocturnos Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, 1979 ; - Ramón Mérica, Antonio Seguí (Interview), El Día, "Antonio Seguí. Un Latinoamericano en París", Montevideo, Uruguay, October 03, 1982 - Susana Sulic, Arte en Colombia Internacional, "Tiempo de una Mirada Histórica. Antonio Seguí", Bogotá, no. 24, 1984, reproduced on p.28; - Jorge Glusberg, Revista de la Embajada Argentina en Colombia, "Antonio Seguí", Bogotá, vol. 3, no. 8, June 1987, reproduced p.27, 19 ; - Antonio Seguí: Un Regard Nocturne, Centre Culturel de l'Aérospatiale l'Aérospatiale, Toulouse, 1984, reproduced p. 7 ; - Catherine Flohic & Jean-Luc Chalumeau, Eighty, "Les peintres en France dans les années 80", Paris, no. 28, May-June 1990, reproduced p. 6. Related work: Parc aux aveugles, pastel on canvas, 200 x 200 cm, Musée art moderne, Paris. This painting is referenced in the Antonio Seguí archives archives under reference 1979-009, part of the Parcs Nocturnes series. Parcs Nocturnes series. We would like to express our sincere thanks to Mme. valuable information. Antonio Seguí is an artist of Argentinean origin, born in Cordoba in 1934 and died in Buenos Aires in 2022 at the age of 88. Born into a middle-class family, he showed an early artistic vocation, and in 1951 he travelled to Europe to train at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, then at the Académie des Beaux-arts in Paris. Through this training, he discovered the satirical satirical works of Honoré Daumier, and the expressionist expressionism of Guttierez Solana, but his identifiable his identifiable graphic style is tinged with the absurd and influence of Georg Grosz. After returning to South America in 1957, he met Diego Rivera and José Orozco in and transformed his painting into an essentially figurative art. When he moved to France his move to France in 1963, when he represented representing Argentina at the Biennale de Paris success with his burlesque figures and humorous the humor of his compositions. Argentina's military Junta in 1976 kept Seguí in exile for exile for 10 years, while some of his works some of his works mock militarism. During this exile, Seguí produced his work Allées- Retours in 1979, marking the beginning of his his period of "bonhommes" and nocturnal parks nocturnal parks characteristic of his 80s. From oil on canvas, the recurring presence of an recurring presence of a man wearing a hat, archetype of the anonymous, lost in the urban jungle lost in the urban jungle and reduced social behavior. Leaving the viewer to bring his or her own meaning to the questions posed by the work. Seguí scatters his figures like wandering puppets wandering, mysterious puppets with no logical orders or logical encounters. Author of a monograph on Seguí's work, Daniel Abadie Abadie describes it as "a continuous flow, a kind of constant flow, carrying in its current cities and cars, men and women, planes women, planes and clouds, trees and smoke. and smoke". With its evocative name, Allées-Retours offers us a comic response to the existential anguish of our place in the world.