Pascal Magis
We are very sad to advise you of the recent passing away of the great French abstract painter Pascal Magis.
Many of you will know that we had the privilege to represent Pascal in the UK since 1997 and a large number ofhis paintings have passed through our hands.
He will be greatly missed by all his collectors, friends and family, particularly his wonderful wife Lilou.
Recently Pascal had been painting for a number of new exhibitions and projects and it was his wish that the works for these should be made available after his death.
Accordingly, we will keep you informed of developments in this regard.
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Pascal Magis was born in Aurillac, France in 1955 and spent his childhood in Meyrals, a village in the Perigord Noir. He studied art at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs de Limoges from where he attained his Diploma National des Beaux Arts in 1976. He was very talented in all areas of art, but concentrated his artistic creativity on working with tapestries.
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He then returned to Meyrals where he converted a barn into a studio and gallery, holding exhibitions with other artists in the gallery every summer. His work was warmly received by the press and the public. In 1983 he was commissioned to create ten tapestries based on Michele Venture’s designs, of which six were exhibited in New York, and in these tapestries his work became more colourful and increasingly abstract. This was the catalyst that led him back to the canvas and to painting. Like all great artists his work is in a constant state of evolution.
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Pascal Magis's paintings display a combination of all the positives in his art over the past twenty years and contain the qualities of colour, harmony, movement and spontaneity that have made him one of the world’s great abstract artists.