Boris Bojnev Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1898 - d. 1969

Boris Bojnev
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FRAGMENTS OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BORIS BOJNEV

addressed to Alphonse Chave August 3, 1962.

BORIS BOJNEV was born in St. Petersburg in 1898. Exiled in Paris from 1919 to 1939, then lived in Marseille, Nice, Mane (Alpes de Haute Provence) from 1939 to 1969, the date of his death.

... The first pictures of my collection were bought in a junk shop of Gobelins in 1921 ...
... Along with my personal work of poet and essayist, tireless research: twenty years in Paris and since the war, the south, Nice, Marseille, Lower Alps, all High Places of the flea market and antiques - fairs and markets Popular, acquaintances and friendships with live naive and primitive artists - led me to the miraculous finds that reward sooner or later those who seek with gentle but unyielding consistency.
Research findings, sacrifices ...
Trinity every true collector, have little by little my big collection of Naïve Painting, Primitive and Angélique, all the most important that exists in Europe
... But the first glimpse of first reproduction will reveal that the tables in my collection have yet another value because when landed in front of me the big problem of their frames, saw, observed and understood that the former golden quadrilateral and more or less baroque of a classic can fit anything to the canvases of Naïve Painting, nor serve them no.
I resolved then, after long trials, this serious problem by deciding to create a special frame for each canvas of my collection, a kind of personal will, AURA BOJNEV that surrounds the subject and extends the atmosphere of each painting ....

MAIN EXHIBITIONS

1962 Gallery A. Chave "curious things put under glass."
1963: Gallery A. Chave "lights illuminated and Visionaries."
1964 Henriette Legendre Gallery - Paris: "The private collection of a provincial art dealer."
1964 Gallery The eye listening - Lyon: "Wink to a gallery of Provence".
1969: Gallery A. Chave "Haute Tension I".
1973: Gilbert Pastor, Louis Pons and Lucien Henry organized a retrospective of his works at Flayosc Museum.
1978: ARC 2, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris:
"The singular art"
1980: Gallery Chave: Personal exhibition.
1981 ELAC Lyon: "The world of Alphonse Chave".
1988: Creation of the Association of Friends of Boris Bojnev,
Lucien Henry House, Forcalquier.
2005: Gallery Chave "Auras" Boris Bojnev.
BORIS THE AURAS BOJNEV

... Bojnev by an innate sense of staging and the scenario has been able to assemble disparate and obsolete items, scrap without apparent interest and without aesthetic proved to transmute them into masterpieces out of time and without established artistic reference. It is the fantastical vision of a nostalgic Russian emigre who, unable to perform the sumptuous works that had populated his youth and he had a clear memory, transformed his everyday world destitute of Marseille Porte d'Aix, objects, in which he gave free rein to his imagination, using all the little pleasures offered him her look alchemist.