NOYER Philippe

Philippe NOYER began his career as a painter in 1943. That same year, he met the famous art dealer in Paris, Emmanuel David, who made known worldwide to the Paris School. Philippe Noyer immediately obtained a contract with the prestigious Drouant-David gallery in Paris. Alongside his paintings, which at the time represented owls wrapped in leaves and sea urchins with their pets, Philippe Noyer soon became one of the most sought after portraitists in Paris and London in the high society. The gallery offered her her first exhibition in 1947. The success was immediate. While at the Drouant-David Gallery, Philippe Noyer claimed that his success in the United States could be attributed to Robert Goldstein, former president of the 20th Century Fox film company. It was 1949. The Gallery lent about twenty paintings by Philippe Noyer to an American art dealer who had decided to organize an exhibition in the United States. The American Galerist, however, was an evil player and one night, before the exhibition, he suffered unprecedented losses and was forced to sell non-profit paintings. The buyer turned out to be Robert Goldstein who was so satisfied with his purchase that he offered the works to his friends, including the legendary Samuel Goldwyn, who, in turn, made Philippe Noyer's fame and fame on the West Coast. A deep and lasting friendship between Noyer and Goldstein followed. In 1960, when, as it happens to all artists, Philippe Noyer was in a difficult financial situation, Goldstein organized an auction at which all Philippe Noyer's current paintings were sold to Goldstein's friends. In the following years, Philippe was commissioned to paint portraits of dozens of personalities including Elizabeth Taylor, Dinah Shore, Jean Wallace and the children of actor Alan Ladd and producer Alan Lerner. Like his mature art, he set aside this career as a portraitist to devote himself entirely to delicate and sophisticated, slender, long-line ladies who had gradually replaced children as his favourite subjects. My paintings are what they seem to be, nothing more, nothing less", Philippe Noyer once told an art critic. "Some paintings are serious, others are not. But I always painted what I felt." From owl leaves plated from his first paintings to young lithographic girls and languorous cheetahs of his later works, art Philippe Noyer has always been quite unique. The elements that Philippe NOYER uses in his paintings - women, monuments, animals and flowers - come to life under the brush that translates them into realistic terms in compositions that are the fruit of his imagination and intellectual or literary reminiscences. As in the paintings of all artists, there are themes of preference and recurrent objects like lucky charms - eggs, hats, shoes - but as the artist himself warns, it would be futile to seek in them a certain hidden symbolism or draw simplistic Freudian conclusions. Thirteen years of personal research have brought Philippe Noyer to the technique which gives his paintings their very special transparency and light. The technique, which Philippe Noyer perfected in 1956 eliminates the use of white in favor of pure colors that give the rocks their roughness, revive the subtle glow of a shell and give the skin subjects, the impression of feeling their sweetness without touching them. Honest walnut with himself, his innate design and the eye for color have earned Philippe Noyer a world reputation. He married Nora Kern in 1939 and was the father of four children: Paul Denis, Corinne, Laurence and Ariel. Noyer died in 1985. Nearly two thousand of his works are in private museums and collections.