CLAUDE LAGOUTTE

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A painter belonging to the abstract landscape movement, he was an artist of immense culture, both literary and philosophical.
Throughout his life, he traveled all over the world, notably to Thailand, India, Laos and the Ivory Coast.
His taste for painting was realized through large-scale abstract landscapes.
In a highly personal pictorial translation, he recreated the routes he had travelled on his canvases by cutting out strips of fabric or paper, sewing, weaving and dyeing them.
His long walks along the roads and paths have given rise to a powerful, intimate body of work, like a meditation that invites us to look inward.
For Claude Lagoutte, "there's only one thing to paint: the feeling of mystery before the world".

His work never ceases to surprise, astonish, dazzle and seduce, with its obvious beauty and stylistic coherence, which not only explain the magic and fascination exerted by his works.
We need to take his journey back to the beginning, in his native Rochefort, which he shares with Pierre Loti.
Like Janus, the novelist and naval officer fascinated Claude Lagoutte, who sought out his traces in Istanbul and Angkor.
The call of the sea soon triggered his wandering imagination, stimulated by a provincial life that included reading the accounts of voyages to the Sahara by Eugène Fromentin, a fellow Charentais, whose work in the La Rochelle museum caught the eye of the young Lagoutte, who discovered the escapism of painting.
His first landscapes in the countryside were born of his visual and emotional wonder.
His self-taught apprenticeship and early travels, as a lieutenant in charge of his own company, led him to become one of the world's leading painters.
(Article borrowed from Galerie convergences)

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