Room II
The dancing body
1987 – 1989
29 works
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.”
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.

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1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperCollection Nadia FerrariImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 100 × 80 cm (encadrée)Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987Watercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1987 · 123 × 82 cmWatercolour on paperImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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 · 195 × 150 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
Heures Jaspart I (Jaspart Hours)
1989 · 195 × 150 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudIn 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.
- The body in motion

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
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1989 · 195 × 300 cmAcrylic on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1989 · 195 × 300 cmAcrylic on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
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1989 · 195 × 260 cmOil on canvasImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland Buraud
Red triptych
1988–1989Oil and acrylic on cardboardImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudIn 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.
- The body in motion