"To make an abstract painting is to turn reality into poetry"
Latapie
LOUIS LATAPIE (1891-1972)
“ABSTRACTION”
oil on paper laid on canvas,
65 x 50cm (25 ½ x 19¾in) signed lower left, c.1945
“COMPOSITION ABSTRAITE”
oil on canvas, 50 x 32cm (19¾ x 12½in) signed lower right painted circa 1960
“NATURE MORTE AUX BOUTEILLES”
oil on canvas, 60 x 92 cm (511/2 x 341/2in) signed upper left, painted c.1945
[SOLD]
“L’ARBRE DE VIE”
oil on canvas, 131 x 88 cm (51 1/2 x 34 1/2in) signed and dated on reverse 1967
LITERATURE:
“Louis Latapie”, Lydia Harambourg, 2003 (p.147)