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André Cottavoz (1922–2012) was a French painter and lithographer trained in Lyon whose later career included work in Vallauris. Figures, landscapes and familiar scenes provided subjects for a practice that gave particular importance to the material presence of paint. Thick, worked layers make the surface an active component of the image, with colour contributing to light as much as to the definition of forms. His practice also extended to lithography: in 1968 he contributed with other artists to an edition of Nikos Kazantzakis’s Odyssey. Interviews gathered in Au fil des heures in 1993 further illuminate his approach to making art. Painting and printmaking thus accompany an enquiry centred on the sensory experience of a subject.
This profile brings together identity references for André Cottavoz and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on canvas
Les serres d'Antibes,
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2021-11-24 — 2021-12-08
Published result : 1400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1200–1800
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Oil on canvas
Jacques à la nature morte
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2017-09-18
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 500–700
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Oil on canvas
Jacques à la nature morte
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2017-06-23
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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crayon, signé au crayon en bas à doite, porte au dos une étiquette de la galerie Paul VALLOTTON
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 200–300
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