Jean-Pierre DUPREY.

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Jean-Pierre DUPREY.
Untitled. August 1952. Oil on isorel panel signed and dated lower left "JP Duprey 8/52" (41,5 x 33,5 cm). Extremely rare and beautiful surrealist painting by Jean-Pierre Duprey. A meteor of the literary and artistic scene, a true Maudit, Jean-Pierre Duprey (1930-1959) began as a poet, encouraged by Breton and the surrealists. "An apocalypse furnished by Chirico and filmed by Buñuel... The poetry is there, and it is at one with some of Rimbaud's "departures" that J.-P. Duprey's life counters: At all costs and with all the airs, even in metaphysical journeys. But not any more" (Julien Gracq). In 1951, Duprey abandons writing to devote himself to sculpture, then to painting. His artistic work is populated by what he calls "objêtres". He exhibited for the first time at the Galerie de l'Étoile scellée in February-March 1954: eleven sculptures and five paintings. He returned to poetry in 1959. On October 2, he completed his last collection, La Fin et la Manière, the manuscript of which he sent to Breton, and hanged himself in his studio. His paintings are limited to about thirty works. (See Christophe Dauphin's entry on the website leshommessansépaules.com and Stéphanie Caron's entry in the Dictionnaire André Breton, pp. 343-344. - Jouffroy and Trigano, À l'ombre des flammes, pp. 53-57.)
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