Marie-Christine Autin Sold at Auction Prices

Born in Rouen (France), Marie-Christine Autin is a painter, a writer and an Art Historian. She graduated in Fine Arts from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and has been awarded the Price of Rome in painting in 1968.

Since 1969 she has been living in Geneva away from Art schools and other community centers from which she intends to stay out of their influence. She owns a very personal figurative and perhaps surrealistic style. This kind of retreat is certainly profitable to her art and passion.

Her sensitivity and her highly reliable instinct with very personal and original way of looking at things, objects, flowers, persons or colors entertain her wish to render the intrinsic but hidden beauty of everyday banalities.

From her oil paintings, which disclose a high technical mastership, comes out a kind of strangeness. Her still-life, both sensual and icy, show us a moment of perfection, where the threat of disorder and maladjustment are nevertheless present. Her portraits, generally lonely figures, live in a space out-of-time and seem to be absorbed in a blissful or mournful thought.

Marie-Christine Autin paradox lies in very simple themes and subjects, in very classical technique but with extraordinary originality and personality of achieved work of Art.

In a period of time when material, design and color are often anarchic, the harmony used by the artist to bring peace charms the eye, delights the vision, cheers the soul and puts your mind at rest. It is certainly the real truth and the beauty of her painting…