Nu Assis (Seated Nude)

Paul Rebeyrolle (1926 - 2005) was a French painter born in Eymoutiers, France. As a child he had tuberculosis of the bone, which caused for long periods of immobility. Later he studied in Limoges and joined the French Communist Party. He ultimately broke with the party because of events related to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. His art is often concerned with landscapes, but is marked by violence and rage. His work is sometimes abstract, or near abstract, portraying imagined animals, body parts or partial human figures, and seems to be a combination of invention and observation, where emotion plays a front role. He received praise from Francois Pinault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and others.