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SWIMMING POOL II

Swimming pools fascinate Grataloup. Perhaps they are a metaphor
of the surface of the canvas? Transparencies, reflections, planes through which the motif must be seen?

It is a theme already declined during his pictorial research (series Swimming Pools, 1988). It is following the construction of a swimming pool in the garden of his house-workshop in Chevreuse that he will undertake, in 2008, a new series on this theme.

"With swimming pools, it was necessary to try to apprehend pictorial the infinite changes of forms, colors, light matter… The metaphorical and/or symbolic uses of swimming pool water, if changing, pre-empt the whole. Tense canvases are for me cut pieces in the shows of a mysterious world."

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SWIMMING POOL II series by GRATALOUP

The “SWIMMING POOL II” series includes 31 works.

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GRATALOUP — I Remember Giverny” – Chromatic Pool - diptych

I REMEMBER GIVERNY” – CHROMATIC POOL - DIPTYCH
2009

GRATALOUP — Bather with arms raised - diptych

BATHER WITH ARMS RAISED - DIPTYCH
2009

GRATALOUP �— Solar -diptych

SOLAR -DIPTYCH
2008–2016

GRATALOUP — Night pool - diptych

NIGHT POOL - DIPTYCH
2008–2016

GRATALOUP — Yoga - diptych

YOGA - DIPTYCH
2008–2016

GRATALOUP — Day pool

DAY POOL
2008–2016

GRATALOUP — Hindish dancer

HINDISH DANCER
2008

GRATALOUP — Ophelia

OPHELIA
2002

GRATALOUP — Water outlet - triptych

WATER OUTLET - TRIPTYCH
1988–2011

GRATALOUP — Lunar

LUNAR
2013
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Bather in free canvas I - diptych

BATHER IN FREE CANVAS I - DIPTYCH
2010
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Bather in the Lightning

BATHER IN THE LIGHTNING
2010
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — I remember of giverny - water outcome - diptych

I REMEMBER OF GIVERNY - WATER OUTCOME - DIPTYCH
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Bather in free canvas - diptych

BATHER IN FREE CANVAS - DIPTYCH
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Water outcome - triptych

WATER OUTCOME - TRIPTYCH
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Gestural sea

GESTURAL SEA
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Swimming pool with raised arms - diptych

SWIMMING POOL WITH RAISED ARMS - DIPTYCH
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Small green bath

SMALL GREEN BATH
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Small black bather

SMALL BLACK BATHER
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Nostalgic dripping

NOSTALGIC DRIPPING
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Water outcome

WATER OUTCOME
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — An Elemental Passes By – Mystery 5

AN ELEMENTAL PASSES BY – MYSTERY 5
2009
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — By day - diptych

BY DAY - DIPTYCH
2008–2016
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — I remember of giverny - diptych

I REMEMBER OF GIVERNY - DIPTYCH
2008
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Bath with raised arms - Triptych

BATH WITH RAISED ARMS - TRIPTYCH
2008
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Pool at night - mystery 6 - diptych

POOL AT NIGHT - MYSTERY 6 - DIPTYCH
2008
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — "I remember Giverny"

"I REMEMBER GIVERNY"
2008
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Metal swimming pool - matrix of the series - diptych

METAL SWIMMING POOL - MATRIX OF THE SERIES - DIPTYCH
2008
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Taken off

TAKEN OFF
2008–2015
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — Night falls on bath exit - diptych

NIGHT FALLS ON BATH EXIT - DIPTYCH
2008
— Private collection —

GRATALOUP — I remember of giverny - diptych

I REMEMBER OF GIVERNY - DIPTYCH
2008
— Private collection —

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