Armchair by Claude Hastaire

"At first, being familiar with the area, I thought it was necessary to anticipate the work of the seagulls and other cormorants; but what a layer!!! Molière "chose" the stage in order to die there. Eugène Boudin had himself urgently repatriated to Deauville to finish facing the sea. Two admirable actors in their armchairs."

Claude Hastaire was born in Paris in 1946. Painter, essayist, poet and photographer, he has had several hundred solo and group exhibitions in different spaces (galleries, museums, contemporary art centers) in Europe, U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Korea. His real name, Claude Hilaire (he is the son of the painter Camille Hilaire 1916-2004) adopted the pseudonym of "Hastaire" at the age of 16. Winner of the XVIIIth International Prize of Monte Carlo in 1994, Hastaire has produced several hundred lithographs, exhibitions of his photographs have been organized in various galleries (L'oubli atlantique, Le Vietnam retrouvé...), he has also designed furniture: Arromanches, selected by the "New-York Times" with "Puci de Rossi" and "Eleen Grey" (1987). More recently, among others, "les Crapauds Picabia" have met with great success. He is co-founder with his friend the painter Alain Kleinmann of the "Groupe International Mémoires".