Tour 2 of 5
Three panels, one work
Red, yellow, cross-shaped and black triptychs: twenty years of large formats in several panels.
≈ 2 min · 6 works
Roland Buraud often painted in several panels: triptychs and diptychs, set side by side. This route follows these large formats, from the 1988 Red Triptych to the 2007 Black Triptych.
Red triptych
1988–1989Oil and acrylic on cardboardImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudThe Red Triptych, 1988 – 1989, opens the red period devoted to dance. Three cardboard panels, painted in oil and acrylic.
Le Printemps (Spring)
1990 · 200 × 390 cmAcrylic on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudLe Printemps, 1990, the first triptych from the Bastille studio. Its three canvases form a single wall of painting, almost four metres wide.
Yellow triptych
1992–1993 · 195 × 450 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudYellow Triptych, 1992 – 1993, oil on canvas. It belongs to the period of the tilt, when the bodies begin to lose their balance.
Cross-shaped triptych
1995 · 195 × 130, 228 × 28 et 195 × 130 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudTriptych in a Cross, 1995: here the panels are no longer simply side by side. Count them and see how they fit together.
Untitled
1998–2002 · 200 × 300 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudA diptych from the late 1990s. Two panels are joined edge to edge; from 1998, black backgrounds take over the studio.
Black triptych
2007 · 195 × 486 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudBlack Triptych, 2007: two metres by four and a half. Alain Nahum filmed it being painted, over six months, in Regards qu’on plisse.
End of the tour
Alain Nahum’s film, in the studio room, shows the painter at work on this last large triptych.