Oil and paper collage on panel. 1510x1385 mm; 59½x54½ inches.
Provenance: Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris; Private collection; thence by descent to the current owner.
Working on canvas and wooden support, Bernard Réquichot danced the fine line between figurative and abstract forms to produce surrealist compositions with an alure of familiarity. Many of his paintings included collage elements from printed imagery, further enticing the viewer to identify the pictorial references. Réquichot had one solo exhibition with famed Paris art dealer, Daniel Cordier before his untimely death in 1961. His work has been widely exhibited and discussed in scholarly publications posthumously.
