Philippe Artias, Composition abstraite, 1967, Watercolor on Wood, Framed

Painter named by his pseudonym of Saby-Viricel d'Artias Philippe was born in 1912 in Feurs (Loire), he died in 2002. Painter, designer, ceramist. Expressionist. He was a student of the Regional School of Fine Arts of Saint-Étienne. Then comes a period when he entered the French resistance, later having political and administrative functions in Auvergne. At the Liberation, he devoted himself entirely to painting. He reappeared between 1950 and 1955 in the entourage of Edouard Pignon, and therefore in that of Picasso, with whom he worked in Vallauris. In Paris, he appears at the Salon de Mai since 1959, at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in 1963 and 1964. In 1964 he was selected for the Venice and Sào Paulo Biennials. He has shown personal exhibitions of his paintings, in the provinces since 1959, in Switzerland in 1963 and 1971, in Paris in 1964, 1973, 1979, in Montreal, Budapest, Bucharest, Prague, Warsaw in 1968, in Los Angeles 1988, etc. . Since 1968, he has worked between Paris and Rome. Having been influenced by Pignon, his painting is both structured and very written, with scrolling writing and characteristic arabesques. More than the color, willingly strong moreover, it is the line that determines the form.