| French painter, sculptor, medalist and designer. Bezombes studied in Paris, at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts, and was much influenced by his friendship with Maurice Denis. He worked principally as a painter, adopting the saturated colors of Henri Matisse in landscapes and figures studied often based on observation of exotic cultures, notably Mediterranean and North African. In the mid-1960s a new rawness emerged in his work, derived from primitive examples and new materials associated with his experiments in other media. He executed tapestry designs for Aubusson, posters (winning the Grand Prix de lAffiche Française in 1984), costumes and sets for ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, reliefs and murals. In 1965 he took up medal-making, expressing his numerous metallic works for the Paris Mint that obssessionwith found object which is also evident in his large-scale sculpture and in his posters. |
