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Room II

The dancing body

1987 – 1989

29 works

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The subject of a major retrospective at the Chapelle des Dames Blanches in La Rochelle in 2016, the red period, devoted to dance, marks the painter’s return to large-format painting, which he had set aside between 1980 and 1986.

“To paint until the moment when it could become painting, but to draw the way one plays the piano.”

— Roland Buraud, Regards qu’on plisse, 2007

Milestones · Paris

1987
Chaque semaine au cours de Kókó Jaspar, metteur en scène et chorégraphe : environ huit cents dessins de danse
1987
Une fois par semaine pendant trois ans au cours de Kókó Jaspar, au moins quinze dessins par séance
1988
Le Génie de la Bastille, Paris
1988
Le Génie de la Bastille, Paris
1989
Synapsiades, Axon S.A., Montmirail ; passage à la toile des peintures de danse

Meanwhile, in painting

Depuis 1981
En France, la Figuration libre (Robert Combas, Hervé Di Rosa) renoue avec une peinture figurative et expressive.
Années 1980
Le néo-expressionnisme allemand (Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer) domine la scène internationale.
1987–1988
Rétrospective Lucian Freud, de Washington à Paris (Centre Pompidou) puis Londres.
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperCollection Nadia FerrariImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1987

    Untitled

    1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Heures Jaspart III (Jaspart Hours), 1989

    Heures Jaspart III (Jaspart Hours)

    1989 · 195 × 150 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Heures Jaspart II (Jaspart Hours), 1989

    Heures Jaspart II (Jaspart Hours)

    1989 · 195 × 150 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Heures Jaspart I (Jaspart Hours), 1989

    Heures Jaspart I (Jaspart Hours)

    1989 · 195 × 150 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
    In the themed tours
    • The body in motion

      Heures Jaspart I, 1989. The drawings from the class move onto canvas: this is the red period, marking the painter’s return to large formats after 1986.

  • D’après le Verrou (after Fragonard’s The Bolt), 1989

    D’après le Verrou (after Fragonard’s The Bolt)

    1989 · 150 × 195 cmAcrylic on canvasCollection particulièreImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1989

    Untitled

    1989 · 195 × 300 cmAcrylic on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1989

    Untitled

    1989 · 195 × 300 cmAcrylic on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Untitled, 1989

    Untitled

    1989 · 195 × 260 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
  • Red triptych, 1988–1989

    Red triptych

    1988–1989Oil and acrylic on cardboardImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
    In the themed tours
    • The body in motion

      Red Triptych, 1988 – 1989, oil and acrylic on cardboard. Three panels for a single movement, which the eye follows from left to right.

    • Three panels, one work

      The Red Triptych, 1988 – 1989, opens the red period devoted to dance. Three cardboard panels, painted in oil and acrylic.