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1929-2017 | French
Robert Lepine
Painter of the South, from Fantastic Landscapes to Abstraction
Robert Lépine (1929–2017) was a French painter whose long career ran from the fantastic landscapes of the 1960s, creatures and figures of weathered rock standing on sandy plains before dark mountains and strips of sea, under skies of torn white cloud, to abstract oils and gouaches in the 1970s and, in later years, light watercolours of the places he loved: Provence and Aix, the Côte d’Azur, Corsica, Brittany, the Basque Country and the Bordeaux coast.
The oils of the 1960s, scraped and dragged paint with black outlines and warm impasto, belong to the post-surrealist current of French painting of those years, between the dream landscapes of Tanguy and Ernst and the gestural abstraction of the Paris schools.
The contents of his studio were dispersed by Millon at Nice in June 2024, in a sale of painters of the South and the Côte d’Azur that showed the whole range of his work, from a 1974 ‘Composition en jaune et noir’ to the watercolours of his last decades. His paintings appear regularly in French and European sales.
