Artist: Markus Billard
Title: Untitled
Year created: 1999
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Edition: Original Unique Artwork
Height (inches): 55-1/2
Width (inches): 55-1/2
Depth (inches): 2-1/4
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
This piece is framed.
Description of piece:
Markus Billard’s richly-colored, dynamic mixed media painting on canvas combines abstract and figurative elements with color which ranges from bold and jewel-hued to textural golds and white.
Dramatically-scaled and elegantly framed, the work itself measures 48” in height x 48” width. In its substantial, ornately carved custom frame, complete with black linen matting, the piece measures 55-1/2” in height x 55-1/2” width x 2-1/4” depth. This magnificent work has been hand-signed by the artist, lower left.
The painting is from Billard's collection of paintings L'Ecriture du Corps (The Writing of Bodies), in which Billard expressively explores the human body. Billard's work expresses itself as a poetic vision, the result of converging perspectives; Billard sees his paintings as the result, and unforeseen conclusion, of the collision of spontaneously created gesture, shape and color.
The painting comes a Certificate of Authenticity.
Artist bio:
Markus Billard, grandson of master painter Robert Libeski, a member of the Vienna Sezession, first held a paintbrush in his grandfather's atelier in Vienna. His artistic genealogy goes back even further as Libeski's own father and grandfather were well-known painters of the 19th century.
Schooled in Lausanne, Switzerland as well as in the United States and Quebec, Billard had his first solo exhibition at the distinguished 'Galerie d'arts Contemporains' in Montreal before he had even earned his degree; and less than one year later his work was exhibited in a second solo exhibition at the opening of 'Le Portal Artour' gallery in Quebec City.
Billard's celebrated painting career continued with international solo exhibitions including those of a body of work titled L'Ecriture du Corps (The Writing of Bodies / Schrift des Koerpers) in 1999. This painting is part of Billard's impressive L'Ecriture du Corps collection.