SAVARY Robert

Robert SAVARY (1920-2000) was a figurative painter and engraver, he was part of the "Young Painting", again called the "Young Painters" of the New School of Paris or "Young Painting of the School of Paris". A student of Maurice Brianchon at the Fine Arts in Paris, he won the Prix de la Casa de Velãquez in 1948. He is part of the 19th artistic promotion, in the company of: Edmond Cabrol Gonella painter, Marcel Gili sculptor, Josefina Miralles Guas, fellow sculptor of the city of Valencia, Severin de Rigné painter-graveur, and Queen Gianoli musician. In 1950, he rode to compete in the Prix de Rome and won ex aequo with Françoise Boudet in front of the favourite Geoffroy Dauvergne. It was in those years that he met Paul, a restorer in Rouen, whose cuisine he enjoyed. He later taught Fine Arts in this city and included among his students: Miss Dominique Breton, Martine Sarrazin, Adeline Chabert-Boué, Sylvain Lecoq. He was also Honorary Director of Fine Arts of Rouen, Painter of the Navy in 1987. There he found Jean le Merdy, Jean-Pierre Alaux, J.-J. Morvan, Mr. Bez, Michel Jouenne, Philip Plisson, Paul Ambille. His close friends include René Aberlenc, Paul Collomb and Paul Guiramand. For more than forty years, he was part of the group of exhibitors invited by Maurice Boitel to the Salon "Compares".