Surrealism and a poem by Baudelaire, that' seems to be the subject in this oil on canvas, great size. Signed by Pierre Didier dated 1984 and dedicated. At the back you have si la plume est votre velour, et la pensée votre musique je ne peux, helas! que jouer du pinceau mais, c'est avec un grande joie , que celui-a á gôute votre musique j'emprunterai, ce petit poeme , ? que ses chemiser? se rencontrer encore Il faut être toujours ivre, tout est là ; c'est l'unique question. Pour ne pas sentir l'horrible fardeau du temps qui brise vos épaules et vous penche vers la terre, il faut vous enivrer sans trêve.Mais de quoi? De vin, de poésie, ou de vertu à votre guise, mais enivrez-vous!Et si quelquefois, sur les marches d'un palais, sur l'herbe verte d'un fossé, vous vous réveillez, l'ivresse déjà diminuée ou disparue, demandez au vent, à la vague, à l'étoile, à l'oiseau, à l'horloge; à tout ce qui fuit, à tout ce qui gémit, à tout ce qui roule, à tout ce qui chante, à tout ce qui parle, demandez quelle heure il est. Et le vent, la vague, l'étoile, l'oiseau, l'horloge, vous répondront, il est l'heure de s'enivrer ; pour ne pas être les esclaves martyrisés du temps, enivrez-vous, enivrez-vous sans cesse de vin, de poésie, de vertu, à votre guise. Baudelairemerci de votre inmense?,con mucho gusto para siempre Didier.And a 200 in numbers. Size: 27.5 inches (h) x 44 inches (w)Who is Pierre Didier?: He spent his childhood in the Vosges. Refugee in Paris, the family home destroyed by the war, he was admitted to the school of Fine Arts in 1944. He is then student of Paul Lemagny, alongside Bernard Buffet.In 1946, he chose to leave the Fine Arts to join the workshop of Paul Colin where he will be massaging for four years. He attended the studio of Fernand Léger and became his pupil in 1949.After his military service, he made frequent study trips in search of the pictorial technique of the old masters, in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.Abstraction and surrealism were present in his work from the beginning of the 1950s, as well as the obstinate search for a form of expression of the real, attached to the demand for a sober and contemporary figuration. From 1953, Pierre Didier exhibited permanently in the galleries, then in the salons in France, Switzerland, Germany. Since 1960, he has participated in the comparisons show in the Cadiou Group, at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, at the Salon of water painting.In 1968, Georges Pompidou will tell this artist living in Lorraine: "You make me discover a new personal contribution of surrealism. »Associate of the National Fine Arts. Pierre Didier won the Grand Prize of Plastic Arts of the city of Nancy in 1953 and the first prize "Still Life" of the Côte d'Azur in 1966.He lived and worked alternately between Paris and Lorraine. He is currently pursuing at Saint-Dié the course of a creation that has never been interrupted. His current style is now that of hyperrealism.Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information, paintings by email: danyantiques@yahoo.com