Paul Robert Bazé, Dalie e camelie, anni '70, Olio su tavola, Incorniciato

Ó/T, Dahlias and Camellias, Paul Baze, S. XX - France

Impressive oil on panel by Paul Robert Bazé, a French artist. It represents a still life with a bouquet of flowers in the foreground on a dark background. It mainly shows dahlias and camellias, which give the work its name. The traditional still life genre shows here its evolution. It presents the characteristic style of the genre to which it corresponds, realistic and meticulous, especially noticeable in the way of working the different qualities of the flowers and leaves. The dark background is also an inheritance of the still life genre, with a marked tenebrist interest reflected in the backgrounds in semi-darkness. Signed in the lower left corner.

Paul Robert Bazé (1901-1985) was born in Paris, although he soon moved to Bayonne and then to Bordeaux, where he was a student of Paul Quinsac at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1924 he returned to Paris, thanks to a scholarship that allowed him to join the workshop of Lucien Simon, who became his main teacher. He was nominated several times for the Grand Prix de Rome, of which he won second prize in 1927 with his work La Mélancolie and first prize the following year with Concert champêtre. In 1929 he moved to Rome, to the Villa Medicis, and spent another season in Naples. During 1935 and 1936 he was a boarder at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid. At the end of the 1930s he settled permanently in Bayonne. In 1967 he was appointed curator of the Bonn Museum.