Roger BISSIÈRE (1886-1964) - Lot 25

Roger BISSIÈRE (1886-1964) Four Seasons IX, 1957 Oil on paper pasted on panel. Signed and dated lower right. 26 x 41 cm Exhibition: Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1958, catalog, plate IX. Bibliography: Isabelle Bissière, Virginie Duval, Bissière: Catalogue raisonné, 1944-1964, Neuchâtel, Ides et calendes, 2001, no. 2395, reproduced on p. 810. At the Galerie Jeanne Bucher exhibition in 1958, Bissière presented a series of 34 oils on paper on the theme of the Four Seasons, of which our work is one. It is a "sort of diary of daily life that the artist creates for himself. This 'road book' marks Bissière's path through these landscapes, where nature and the poet exchange souls". (Diary published on the occasion of Jean-François Jaeger's 90th birthday and 66 years in the gallery, Matière et mémoire, La Demeure du patriarche, November 19, 2013 - January 25, 2014.