Technical information
- Title : The Studio
- Date : c. 1952
- Technique : Oil on panel
- Dimensions : 33 × 41 cm
- Location : Private collection
Biographical / historical context
The studio motif occupies an essential place in Breuillaud’s oeuvre: a site for observing objects, light, and colour, but also a mental space where reality is reconstructed.
Dated c. 1952, this study belongs to a period in which the artist pushes further the simplification of forms and composition through coloured masses.
Formal / stylistic description
The interior space is suggested through an organization of large rectangles and polygons that evoke walls, openings, and areas of shadow. Studio objects (canvases, easel, tables, tools) are reduced to signs: green-yellow planes, blue-green surfaces, and punctuating touches of red.
Perspective is deliberately unstable: rather than a single vanishing point, the scene unfolds by overlapping planes, like a worktable spread across the entire surface.
The paint surface appears freer, with passages where the brushwork and rubbing reveal the underlying structure.
Comparative analysis / related works
This interior constructed through planes can be compared to Breuillaud’s other studio views and, more broadly, to his still lifes: the same desire to transform the real into an architecture of colour.
Compared to contemporary market scenes, the subject is less narrative; the studio allows a more direct experimentation with the balance of surfaces and the circulation of tonalities.
Justification of dating and attribution
The circa dating to 1952 corresponds to the stylistic evolution visible here: increased simplification, a more acidic palette (greens, yellows), and an emphasis on broad flat areas.
The signature is present on the work, confirming the attribution.
Provenance / exhibitions / publications
Private collection (location noted in the notice). Provenance, exhibitions, and publications: not documented to date.
© Bruno Restout — Catalogue raisonné André Breuillaud