Oil on canvas by Émile LAFAMÉ (1934-2017) depicting a group of characters seated in front of a beer.
Oil on canvas signed lower right.
Titled and dated on the back "La bière" 11/(19)82".

Size of work: 60.5 x 51 cm

The work is in good condition, although there is a very slight lack of material on the upper lip of the woman on the right of the composition;

Émile Lafamé (known as Émile Bogaert) was born in Hazebrouck in the Nord region of France in 1934.
"His beginnings as an artist were extraordinary. Fleeing the constraints of the heavy family atmosphere, he "went up" to Paris at the age of 18 with the fierce desire to be a painter. In the midst of Montmartre's bohemian lifestyle, a providential meeting with Pablo Picasso convinced him of the need to learn, in order to master his ardor and talent. It was at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lille that he earned the famous nickname L'affamé, which he would choose as his artist's name a few years later. The students drew in charcoal, blurring their lines with breadcrumbs, which Émile voraciously devoured.
After completing his training at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Beaux Arts in Paris, he settled in Paris in 1962, the year of his marriage to Geneviève. Alternating exhibitions in galleries (Katia Granoff) and the major Parisian salons (Artistes Français, Indépendants...), his painting continued to evolve.Expressionist in the 1950s, his style became more abstract, featuring large swathes of color, in the manner of Charles Lapicque, at the end of the following decade. His varied subjects testify to a great joy in painting, while at the same time reflecting a social approach to the times, in the spirit of the Peintres témoins de leur temps.
The colors soften at the turn of the 1980s, when the artist seems to take a more serene, interiorized approach, while retaining that inextinguishable will to exist and speak as a painter, which is corroborated by the extraordinary nickname he adopted."
Text by Damien Voutay.

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