Exhibition: Raymond Legueult: Painter of happiness

It is to a marvellous enchanter, the author of exquisite hours where
tender colours give space an infinite softness and a luminous serenity.
serenity, that the Baron Martin museum is devoting its spring
exhibition.
Trained at the École des Arts décoratifs in Paris, Raymond Legueult
Raymond Legueult (1898-1971) did not adopt the style of his master
style of his master, the painter and poet Eugène Morand, and was inspired
by the aesthetic climates of Matisse and Bonnard, in search of a personal outpouring
personal outpouring that would allow him to express the multiple folds
of his inner self. However, he owed it to his master, of whom he was a favourite pupil
pupils and who was close to Mallarmé, Heredia and others, his poetic perception
his poetic perception of reality and, thanks to his support, received major commissions
in the theatre thanks to his support.
A painter of the joy of existence as rebirth and hope
after the wounds, horrors and dehumanisation of the First World War
World War, which he experienced from the inside as a young soldier,
Raymond Legueult gives us a suspended and rediscovered time, a
pacified time made up of a kiss of caressing, whispering colours,
stunned, intoxicated, pulsating, suave and saturated with light. Parisian,
Franche-Comté was for him one of the essential places where he cultivated his sensibility
he cultivated his sensibility, painted intensely from 1923 onwards and discovered
Maurice Couyba, minister, senator, member of parliament and director of the
director of the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, who was closely involved in the
with the creation of the Gray museum.