Architectures in Vendôme

Architectures in Vendôme  is a original pencil drawing on paper, realized around 1960's by the French artist  André Roland Brudieux  (1921-1999).

Monogrammed  in pencil  "ARB “ on the lower right and s igned  "R. Brudieux"  in pencil on the lower left margin.

Representing a landscape of the artist's youth spent in Vendôme, in the French departement of  Loire-et-Cher , these antique still houses are sketched with a rapid and talended sign and delicate nuances.

This modern artwork is in very good conditions, including a cardboard passepartout (cm 34 x 49).

As usual, the artist-traveler reported the place or the town where he stopped to draw: " Vendôme"  written in pencil on the back of the sheet. 

André Roland Brudieux  (Saint-Moreil, Creuse, France, 1921 – Paris, 1999)

The French artist spent his youth in Vendôme, in the departement of  Loire-et-Cher , where he worked as a wallpaper stenciller. In 1939 he began to engrave and, in 1941, moved to Paris, studing at the  École du Louvre  between 1945-1957.

Talented draftsman and sensitive artist, André Roland Brudieux was a member of  Surrealist mouvement , gravitating around André Breton and participating in Surrealist exhibitions in 1950. He also began to experiment the woodcut technique in 1997. Best-known as engraver or draftsman of natural landscapes, he was also a writer, who attended the great Parisian salons, and a collector of old wallpapers and artwork.