André Roland Brudieux - French Countryside - Pencil Drawing - 1960s

French Countryside is a original pencil drawing on paper, realized around 1960s by the French artist André Roland Brudieux (1921-1999). Monogrammed in pencil ''AB“ on the lower right margin. On the back, ''fGyf. erme'', written in pencil. Representing a natural landscape in which a central three hides a country farmhouse, with a rapid and talended sign, this modern artwork is in very good conditions, including a cardboard passepartout (cm 34 x 49). André Roland Brudieux (Saint-Moreil, Creuse, France, 1921 – Paris, 1999) The French artist spent his youth in Vendôme, in the departement of Loire-et-Cher, where he worked as a wallpaper stenciller. In 1939 he began to engrave and, in 1941, moved to Paris, studing at the École du Louvre between 1945-1957. Talented draftsman and sensitive artist, André Roland Brudieux was a member of Surrealist mouvement, gravitating around André Breton and participating in Surrealist exhibitions in 1950. He also began to experiment the woodcut technique in 1997. Best-known as engraver or draftsman of natural landscapes, he was also a writer, who attended the great Parisian salons, and a collector of old wallpapers and artwork.