Robert COMBAS
Robert COMBAS
"There are journalists in Art who don't like me including one called Trawler, Chamioano (???) or something like that" 2009 Acrylic on canvas 65x81 cm Signed lower right "Combas"
About the artist
Robert Combas, born May 25, 1957 in Lyon, is a contemporary artist, painter, sculptor and illustrator. He is the initiator, with Hervé Di Rosa, of the artistic movement of free figuration1 whose first publication in 1979 of the magazine Bato marks the first milestone. Leader of this movement in Europe, he is today considered one of the most important contemporary French artists since the 1980s. He is the only French artist to appear each year in the Artprice ranking of the 500 most contemporary artists. most rated in the world. A major retrospective was dedicated to him in 2012 at the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Lyon, and in 2016 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.