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MICHEL POTAGE
Michel Potage: the precise and poetic stroke of an unpredictable painter
By Olivier Cena
A light-years away from today’s art market standards, the Frenchman embodies a certain idea of romanticism.
So what has became of Michel Potage? This 65-year-old French painter’s oeuvre disappeared from gallery walls a decade or so ago. Occasionally, one of his paintings emerges from an obscure storeroom to feature in a group exhibition bringing together a few works around a more or less convincing theme. But it is always an old painting. Michel Potage no longer paint. His health is too fragile to allow him to do so.
A chaotic poetic space
Michel Potage is an artist conforming to a certain romantic idea of the genre: a (long) period of alcoholism, screwy, offbeat, unpredictable, sometimes delirous, and above all living in a poetic space that is chaotic but of a rare amplitude.
Source [Translated from]: Olivier Cena pour Télérama, Mai 2015
Michel Potage is a French painter born on June 11, 1949 in Sens who died on December 27, 2020 in the same town. His legacy is a complex abstract work, marked by his travels and a tormented life.
Source [Translated from] : Wikipédia
BS25 – January/Jun 1989
p.116
MICHEL POTAGE
Calèche aux camélias
1 A4 sheets – 21 x 29.7 cm. Photocopied drawing.