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René Bertholo

My position in the international art movement is to put urban reality into images.

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The painter René Bertholo is one of the greatest figures of contemporary Portuguese painting. Born in 1935 in Alhandra, he studied from 1947 to 1951 at the António Arroio School of Decorative Arts and then at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts between 1951 and 1957. In 1953, at the invitation of Júlio Pomar, he took part in the VII General Exhibition of Plastic Arts and the following year he participated in the I Abstract Art Salon. After his training in Lisbon, in 1957 he left for Munich with...

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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past. These pages will undoubtedly make it possible for some of you to associate an image with its title or the other way round, for others it will be a good time to discover more on such and such artist. For the sake of confidentiality – the pieces being no longer available – we won't display neither their numbering or their price. For whatever reason, make sure to visit this amazing art database with to date 6441 online works just for your pleasure! Michelle Champetier

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Book with screenprints de  : Il faut ce qu'il faut
Il faut ce qu'il...
1964 Book in sheet under folder, illustrated cover filled and slipcase. Text by André Balthazar illustrated with original color screenprints by René... Luc Monod n°746

Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)

Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
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Bibliographic track & more

To read from or about the artist :
* René Bertholo, Desenhos, livre à 150 exemplaires avec 20 gravures, 1955.
* Livre Libre, à 30 exemplaires, Ed. Privée, 1960.
* Sens Plastique - KWY, in revue mensuelle n°XXVII, Ed. Librairie-Galerie Le Soleil dans la Tête, Paris, mai 1961.
* Revue KWY, publiée par Lourdes Castro, Christo, Jan Voss et René Berthelo, Paris, ici n°10, au-tomne 1962.
* Royal Garden Blues, illustrations de 10 artistes de la Figuration Narrative, Ed. Michel Cassé, Paris, 1964.
* René Bertholo, avec Lourdes Castro, Jan Voss, Deaniel Spoerri, in revue Opus International n°34, avril 1974.
* Catalogue de l’exposition KWY Paris 1958-1968, Centre culturel de Belém, Ed. Assírio & Alvim, Lisbonne, Portugal, 2001.
* La Figuration Narrative des années 60/70, Ed. La Fondation Demeures Du Nord, 2007.



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Art movements

  • + NARRATIVE FIGURATION / 1965-1975 / Gilles Aillaud, Sergio Birga, Leonardo Cremonini, Gerard Guyomard, Öyvind Fahlström, Ivan Messac, Antonio Recalcati, Peter Saul, etc.
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Artists on display

The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.

Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.

We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.

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