Stamp by Roger Bissiere
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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A tribute to Roger Bissiere
Roger Bissière quitte Paris en 1939 pour s’installer dans l’ancien presbytère qu’il a hérité de sa mère, à Boissierette dans le Lot. C’est là que, vingt cinq ans plus tard, l’artiste s’éteint le 2 décembre 1964. Auprès de sa compagne de vie, il repose dans le calme jardin de cette propriété familiale. Il y a là les bois, l’étang, les près, une petite église magnifiquement décorée, les sculptures de son fils, Louttre B., un atelier, une presse, une croix en pierre pour vous accueillir (voir partie de l’image) et la beauté partout. Avec respect, en son hommage, une rose.
"Je construis des tableaux dans ma tête, je les mûris peu à peu, il me semble que je réussirai à les faire tels que je les rêve." - Roger Bissière
"Ma vie n’a pas d’histoire et il ne se passe rien, toute ma vie se passe à l’intérieur de moi-même et non à l’extérieur. Je travaille aux quelques toiles que j’ai entreprises, j’y travaille chaque jour un peu et je les polies amoureusement." - Roger Bissière
"Le seul intérêt d’une confession, c’est d’être totale et ans pudeur." - Roger Bissière
"Je peins pour être moins seul en ce monde misérable. Je suis un être vivant qui s’adresse à d’autres êtres vivants. Pour avoir moins froid." - Roger Bissière
"Il n’est pas question de prouver ou d’affirmer. Mais seulement de communiquer des émotions, indicibles autrement que par des moyens plastiques." - Roger Bissière
"Tout est permis, tout est possible, pourvu que derrière un tableau un homme apparaisse, tel qu’il est, tout nu, comme la vie." - Roger Bissière
Notes of biography
Roger Bissiere was born in 1886 in Villeréal (Lot-et-Garonne, France). He was 17 years old when he began painting-by instinct. From 1905 until 1910, Bissiere studied to the Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. Then he went to Paris and was a pupil of H. Gabriel Ferrier.
From 1912, he worked as a journalist and hold account-returned exposures for the Parisian weekly magazine “the Opinion”. After the First World War, he stroke up a friendship with many artists. André Lhote and Braque made him discover the cubism which was going to mark all the first part of his work. His articles about Seurat, Ingres and Corot, published in “L’Esprit Nouveau” were noticed. He was then close to the “Purism” of Ozenfant and Le Corbusier.
In 1925-1938 Bissiere became professor to the “Académie Ranson”; appreciated for his simplicity and his natural kindness, he taught to Alfred Manessier, Vieira da Silva or Jean Le Moal and so many others.
In 1938, he was ill and came back in Villeréal, finding quickly in the landscapes which surround him a new pictorial support. He was upset at the outbreak of the new war. At this same time, he was strucked down by a glaucoma, was about to become blind, then stopped painting until 1944. In 1945, although he was almost blind, he created a series of tapestries. He used the “collage” technique with his wife’s help who sewed shreddedand mixed up rags he put together. It was the time of his art blossoming, his maturity, everywhere in the world.
Bissiere had an operation in 1948; many works were born, happy of the light, happy to bud. Bissiere took part in many Salons - like Salon de Mai in Paris -, in biennial, in collective exhibitions abroad as well as in France. Many personal exhibitions were organized after his first one in 1910 (Paris - Galerie Berthe Weil ), many retrospectives too (Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France, United States, etc). Bissiere carried out engravings, illustrations, stained glasses paperboards (Metz’s Cathedral).
Roger Bissiere died in 1964. His whole work was exhibited in 1986 to the Modern art Museum of Paris.