Emile Compard (1900-1977)

Dry stamp, monogram EC, top right

A dynamic mountain landscape created during the 1960-1970s.
With a dry, light brush, Compard traces mineral facades, then with wet, dark touches juxtaposes bushes and trees to form a fine southern-french vegetation.

Emile Compard is a French artist, friend of Pierre Bonnard and supported by the merchant and art-critic Félix Fénéon.
A figurative painter in the 1920s and 1930s, he took part in the avant-gardes and exhibited in the United States and Europe. After the war, he turned to abstract painting. He nevertheless continued to paint landscapes, in oil and in ink, without sometimes wishing to choose between figuration and abstraction.

While it is obvious that Emile Compard’s work is partly inspired by Chinese painting, it is less known that he was also steeped in Taoist poetry. He even learned Chinese in order to read the great authors in the text.

His works are kept at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Mac Val, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine.

Works preserved in the Mac Val :
https://www.navigart.fr/macval/artworks