Mme Viallat
By Claude Viallat (Nîmes, 1936)
Acrylic and collages on paper
"I made the choice to be intimate. We've been married since 1962 and have done everything together : all my work, everything I've accomplished in my life, I've done next to her. We were students together at the Beaux-Arts and started painting together. And then she raised our children. I very much regretted that she preferred to be the woman who accompanies rather than the woman painter next to a painter. But that was her choice. All my work, I did it with her in mind. She is the first spectator of it. I had done a drawing of her recently, taking advantage of a day when she was very tired, and I inserted it, as I often do in my painting, with a yoke of printed fabric: everything is designed to enhance the portrait, as an element of the work. »
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