LAURENT DAUPTAIN | Hugo Fine Arts Galerie

LAURENT DAUPTAIN b. 1961 Paris, France

Oil on canvas self-portrait against a red background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Autoportrait."

Oil on canvas painting of a clothed woman, presumably sleeping, on teal and gold blankets by Laurent Dauptain titled "En Plein Songe."

Oil on canvas still life painting of a vase of red flowers against a blue background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Anémones, Fond Bleu."

Oil on canvas painting of an older man and two women, seemingly unaware of each other as if strangers on the street, against a background of an abstracted sky by Laurent Dauptain titled "Et le Passé s'Éloignait."

Oil on canvas self-portrait against a blue background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Autoportrait."

Oil on canvas still life painting of a vase of orange, deep purple, and white flowers against a dark green background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Renoncules."

Oil on canvas self-portrait against a blue and yellow background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Autoportrait."

Oil on canvas self-portrait against a teal-blue background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Autoportrait, et des Mots sans Suite."

Oil on canvas self-portrait against a cobalt blue background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Autoportrait."

Oil on canvas painting of a shirtless young man looking down at the floor, his face in shadow, by Laurent Dauptain titled "Le Clair el l'Obscur."

Oil on canvas painting of a clothed woman, presumably sleeping, on a brown blanket against an orange background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Endormie."

Oil on canvas self-portrait against a dark teal background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Autoportrait."

Oil on canvas still life painting of a vase of yellow flowers against a dark blue background by Hugo Galerie artist Laurent Dauptain.

Oil on canvas painting of a clothed woman, presumably asleep, laying down on blue and yellow blankets by Laurent Dauptain titled "Luxe, Calme et Volupté."

Oil on canvas portrait of Rembrandt in red and yellow robes and black hat by Laurent Dauptain titled "Rembrandt."

Oil on canvas still life painting of a vase of bright pink roses against a light blue background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Pivoines Rose."

Oil on canvas self-portrait against a dark blue background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Autoportrait."

Oil on canvas still life painting of a vase of pink, white, orange, and blue flowers against a burgundy background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Pivoines et Anémones."

Oil on canvas self-portrait against a teal background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Autoportrait."

Oil on canvas portrait of Rembrandt in a red robe and white hat by Laurent Dauptain titled "Rembrandt."

Oil on canvas self-portrait against a pink background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Autoportrait."

Oil on canvas still life painting of a vase of white and purple flowers against a blue background by Hugo Galerie artist Laurent Dauptain.

Oil on canvas still life painting of a vase of red flowers against a grey background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Anémones Rouges, Fond Gris Chaud."

Oil on canvas painting of a woman, either reclined or floating it is unclear, partially wrapped in a red cloth against a dark blue background by Laurent Dauptain titled "Ophélie."

Photograph of artist Laurent Dauptain

Laurent Dauptain was born in Paris on March 25th in 1961. From the age of six he attended painting classes for adults. At the age of 18, he won first prize at the entrance exam of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He later went on to study at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the Sorbonne University in Paris.

The artist’s first solo exhibition in 1981 had the title Self-portraits—a theme that remains his characteristic subject to this day. He has painted and drawn more than 2000 self-portraits in a variety of styles. Dauptain has also gained recognition for his urban and industrial landscapes, marine paintings, and still lifes.

The work of Dauptain seduces, fruit of a liberated view, subtle, that works into the powers of the emotional and intimate universal dimension. Heir of the great classical French tradition, he is still undeniably in the present by this compositional quality of his stroke. Caressing and nourishing, his stroke transforms the subject into a moment of painting, a snapshot forever uncertain. There is this constant willingness to strip the model from the anecdotal and to keep only the substance, a search that is as significant in his landscapes, be it from Europe or the United States, as it is in his self-portraits, a constant in his oeuvre. Since his beginning, Dauptain has undertaken a work on his own face. This face, in turn Christian or expressionist, exposes the force of his vision. With this delicate exercise, at the knife’s edge, ignoring narcissism and self-celebration, he tells his own story, but also speaks of the passing of time, and discusses in passing masterfully pictorial problems related to the question of representation … and paradoxically, transforms this obsessional face-to-face into a lesson of humanity. (Philippe Ancelin, La Gazette, Drouot Nr 3, January 2013)

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LAURENT DAUPTAIN

Né le 25 mars 1961 à Paris

EDUCATION

1981 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
1983 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
1984 Maîtrise d’Esthétique (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Claudine Legrand Gallery, Paris, France
2019 Claudine Legrand Gallery, Paris, France
2019 Taylor Foundation, Paris, France
2019 Art du Temps Gallery, Cléon-de’Andran, France
2017 Hugo Galerie, New York, NY
2017 Le Hall Gallery, Saumur, France
2016 Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
2015 Galerie Art du Temps, Cléon-d’Andran, France
2014 Galerie Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2014 Galerie Patricia Oranin, Pont-l’Abbé, France
2014 Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
2013 Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Sceaux, France
2013 Orangerie de Cachan, Cachan, France
2012 Galerie Axelle fine arts, New York, NY
2011 Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
2011 Galerie Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2011 Galerie Art du Temps, Cléon-d’Andran, France
2011 Galerie Patricia Oranin, Pont-l’Abbé, France
2011 Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Sceaux, France
2010 Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
2010 Galerie Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2009 Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Sceaux, France
2009 Galerie Axelle Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
2009 Galerie Axelle Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2009 Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
2008 Galerie Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2008 Galerie Axelle fine Arts, Boston, MA
2008 Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Sceaux, France
2007 Galerie Axelle Fine Arts, New York, NY
2007 Galerie Patricia Oranin, Pont-l’Abbé, France
2007 Galerie Art du temps, Cléon-d’Andran, France
2006 Galerie A propos d’Art, Montreuil, France
2000 Galerie des Saints-Pères, Paris, France
1997 Galerie 101, Antony, France
1996 Centre Culturel de Dourdan, France
1994 Galerie de la Fondation Taylor, Paris, France
1994 Chapelle Marquelet de la Noue, Meaux, France
1988 Galerie Jan de Maere, Bruxelles, Belgium
1987 Galerie Jan de Maere et Ozenne, Paris, France
1986 Galerie La Litote, Toulouse, France
1986 Galerie Oberlin, Strasbourg, France
1984 Galerie Michel Ozenne, Paris, France
1983 Galerie Peinture Fraîche, Paris, France
1981 Galerie de la maison des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

PUBLICATIONS (sélection)

Livres
« 276 RENCONTRES INSOLITES » éditions AZART – 2011
« LE PORTRAIT DANS L’ART CONTEMPORAIN » Editions PATOU – 2011

Film
« LAURENT DAUPTAIN , UN FACE A FACE » François Catonné 2014

DISTINCTIONS (sélection)

1982 Médaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris
1992 Prix Legay-Lebrun (Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France)
1993 Prix Karl Beule (Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France)
1999 Prix Achille Fould-Stirbey (Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France)
2015 Prix de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan