"Le Port", dated 1950

Watercolor on paper

Signed and dated "50"

Dimensions: 25 x 22 cm,

With frame: 41.5 x 48.5 cm

The spectator can make out the black masts of the boats and the hulls. The sea, green, gives a completely different dimension to the painting: the eye sweeps the nuanced surface of the canvas, punctuated by the black lines, as if it were reading a musical score.

Gustave Singier was born in Belgium and lived in Paris until the effervescence of 1980. All his life, the painter evolves in a prolific creative universe. he painted some cartoons for stained-glass windows and tapestries, mosaics, illustrated books and   designed costumes for the National Popular Theater of Jean Villar and for the Paris Opera. Painter of the new school of Paris, he is a professor at the Académie Rançon and belongs to the group of “Non-Figuratives”.   

From the post-war period to the 1960s, abstract painting flourished in Paris. However, his posterity is diminished by his historical successors. On the one hand, the avant-gardes reappear (neo-Dadaism, neo-Réaslime, neo-Fauvism) and on the other, the painters of the next generation disappeared from Paris to follow the great painters of the American abstraction still unknown in France.

Without ever detaching fully from reality, he endeavors to represent what he sees. Reality serves as a form repertoire. The painter transposes, distorts and reforms reality to better show it in another register. If we know that geometric abstraction is never far from its way and its touch. The port is a watercolor that plays on the unity released by the shades of colors to magnify the black lines that indicate the matt.