Tour 4 of 5
A painter’s beginnings
Self-portraits, the Beaux-Arts, Chile: the first twenty years, from 1959 to 1979.
≈ 1 min · 6 works
From the age of thirteen, Roland Buraud drew and painted. Then came Paris and the École nationale des Beaux-Arts, from 1966 to 1969. This route follows his first works, up to the Sand Women of 1979.
Self-portrait
1965Image: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudSelf-portrait, 1965. Compare it with the 1964 Self-portrait at the Easel, hung in the same room: how has the gaze changed?
Odile, entrance painting for the Beaux-Arts
1966Image: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudOdile, 1966: the painting submitted to enter the École nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied until 1969.
Self-portrait at the easel
1964Image: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudSelf-portrait at the Easel, 1964. The young painter depicts himself at work, in front of his canvas, two years before the Beaux-Arts.
Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)
1964Image: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudLe Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1964. A title borrowed from a famous painting by Manet: the young painter measures himself against the masters.
September 1973 in Chile
1973Archival photographImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudSeptember 1973 in Chile, an archive photograph. In 1974, he took part in the exhibition “Chile, four painter witnesses” in Bagnolet and Amiens.
Femme de sable (Woman of Sand)
1979 · 160 × 130 cmOil on canvasCollection particulièreImage: Archives Roland Buraud · All rights reserved · estate of Roland BuraudSand Woman, 1979, oil on canvas. The same year, he installed “Mirrors”, sand sculptures, with the artists’ cooperative CAIRN.
End of the tour
After 1979, the painter set large formats aside until 1986. He returned to them with dance, in room II.