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Eric Bari
Lamonzie-Montrastruc village in Dordogne Périgord

2025

$3,183.41
£2,383.33
€3,360VAT Included
CA$4,493.87
A$4,633.12
CHF 2,609.84
MX$59,286.44
NOK 30,114.78
SEK 31,498.29
DKK 21,355.93

About the Item

Éric BARI (born 1963) Lamonzie-Montastruc Oil on canvas H. 46 cm; W. 38 cm Signed lower right. Titled and countersigned on the back. Eric Bari is a prominent French painter, notably recognized as an Official Painter of the Armed Forces (Army, Air Force, and Navy)—an honorary distinction that allows him to artistically document military life and contemporary operations. A graduate of the École Nationale des Arts Appliqués Duperré in Paris, he also studied fresco painting at the Beaux-Arts and was a student of the painter Philippe Lejeune; this background provided him with a solid academic foundation combined with a highly distinctive personal sensibility. His work, widely exhibited in salons and galleries since the late 1980s, showcases both his technical skill and his keen eye across a diverse range of subjects. Bari is described as an artist who wields his brushes with great virtuosity, imbuing every canvas with rich impasto where the interplay of light and shadow lends a tangible, physical presence to his subjects. Beyond his institutional role, his work lies at the intersection of the figurative and the evocative: whether depicting military themes, urban landscapes, Mediterranean vistas, still lifes, or portraits, Bari places color at the heart of the composition. A passionate individual and dedicated teacher, he brings a sharp yet humane perspective to his daily life, making painting and drawing accessible to all. Between his various travels and his teaching commitments, he has offered us a moment of respite in the Périgord region and a collection of twenty-five paintings that take us on a journey through our own landscape. The artist’s perspective: "I built this body of work by alternating between painting *en plein air*—working directly from the subject—and painting from my photographs. Yet, it all begins outdoors. One must walk, return, and wait; one must inhabit a landscape before painting it. It is through this presence that its rhythm, its light, and its silent history—what makes it irreducibly unique—gradually reveal themselves. The studio is not a place of reproduction; it is a place of memory. What remains after the experience of the landscape undergoes a transformation there. Painting does not seek to capture reality, but to rediscover its intensity. It moves away from the visible to reach a more inward truth, where observation and memory intertwine. I chose to paint a few iconic locations in the Périgord region. Others before me have looked at, painted, and loved them. Their presence serves not as a model, but as a memory. Every gaze renews the landscape, just as every era reveals a different light within it. I seek to escape the clichéd image. What matters to me lies in the relationships between forms, the tension of colors, the flow of light, the thickness of the brushstroke, and the breath of the composition. It is here that a pictorial language slowly takes shape—one where the landscape becomes less a subject and more a space for painting. In an age where images follow one another in fleeting succession, painting preserves the slow time of the gaze. It remains an act of presence. It still allows us, it seems to me, to inhabit the world with attentiveness and to convey a sensory experience of it. This exhibition was born of an encounter. A shared project emerged from the friendship and trust of Florent Piednoir, and from the conversations we shared over the months." I see it less as the outcome of a commission than as proof that a dialogue between people, a place, and painting can still give rise to a shared work.
  • Creator:
    Eric Bari (1963, French)
  • Creation Year:
    2025
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 18.12 in (46 cm)Width: 14.97 in (38 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    BELEYMAS, FR
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1857218721172

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