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Sam Szafran. Obsessions of a Painter.
Exhibition catalog, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 2022.

Sam Szafran. Obsessions of a Painter.

Orangerie Museum / Flammarion
€39,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25903
Format 22 x 29
Détails 192 p., richly illustrated, bound.
Publication Paris, 2022
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782080286567
In the secrecy of his studio, painter Sam Szafran (1934-2019) tirelessly pursued the obsessions that fill his work. After the collapse of his childhood during the Second World War, art was for him an anchor in reality. Away from the vicissitudes of the world as well as the debates In his time, his taste for the exactitude of forms never prevented him from letting them drift: spiral staircases turned into labyrinths, workshops invaded by vegetation, boxes of pastels transformed by a play of perspective...
This book offers a new reading of Sam Szafran's unique work and invites the reader into the meanderings of his charcoals, pastels and watercolors.
In the secrecy of his studio, painter Sam Szafran (1934-2019) tirelessly pursued the obsessions that fill his work. After the collapse of his childhood during the Second World War, art was for him an anchor in reality. Away from the vicissitudes of the world as well as the debates In his time, his taste for the exactitude of forms never prevented him from letting them drift: spiral staircases turned into labyrinths, workshops invaded by vegetation, boxes of pastels transformed by a play of perspective...
This book offers a new reading of Sam Szafran's unique work and invites the reader into the meanderings of his charcoals, pastels and watercolors.