la boverie

Through around a hundred works of various kinds (paintings, collages, drawings and personal documents), the exhibition reveals, in chronological order, the powerful and singular work of this artist, who has never made any concessions to the art market, and whose last retrospective was over forty years ago. Cécile Miguel was awarded the Prix Paul-Roux de la Jeune Peinture Française in 1950 after her first group exhibition alongside Picasso and Miró, among others, at the Galerie Nationale in Lucerne. So she was a painter, but today we would prefer the term "visual artist", given the diversity of her formal research: drawings of landscapes and still lifes, brightly coloured gouaches when she lived in Provence, tachism, inlays of objects on wood, oils, collages, figures with huge eyes... You can sense the influence of surrealism, abstract art and art brut in her highly personal work.