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" The Gypsies in the Place du Tertre in Montmartre "
Original oil painting on canvas by Lucien Philippe MORETTI
Sizes : 46 x 55 cm.
Handsigned by the artist
Lucien-Philippe MORETTI
French painter born in Suresnes in 1922, died in Étretat in 2000.
A pupil of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the 1940s, he was appointed associate member of the National Society of Fine Arts in 1947.
Moretti lived for several years in Montmartre. He will leave the Butte in 1963. His life in Montmartre definitely marked his work. Moretti came every day to the Place du Tertre, at the Crémaillère, a meeting point for rapins, young people, portrait painters, guitar players, chess players, but also dancers who came to guincher at night, as well as as lovers entwined under the arbours of the inner terrace. His drawings immortalize the youth of the 50s, the hippies of the 60s. These are the characters he then painted on canvas in a disheveled party, a carnival populated by clowns, pierrots, girls with short skirts and boys with hair long. Moretti decides to revive through his painting a mythical, Edenic era.
His scenes are crowds of characters from his dreams in very symbolic representations that will be his trademark and will open the doors of a great career. He exhibited in all the main galleries in Paris, including the Roussard gallery, then also abroad from the 60s (New York, Miami, Montreal, Tokyo ...). Moretti illustrates with his lithographs: "The Bag of Billes" by Joffo, "The Poacher of God" by René Fallet, and "Songs" by Jacques Brel.
Exhibitions ( Selection ): Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1947). Weil (1949-51), New York (1962), Musée Galliera (1966-67), Roussard (1967-1972), Miami (1971), Pétridès (1973-75), Tokyo (1975) etc….
