Biography

(1933, Hendaya, Francia - ...) His mother is Basque. His father, from Barn, is a journalist. After his studies at the Ustaritz secondary school for seminarists, he took drawing lessons and passed the entrance examination to the Paris School of Applied Arts. He was placed fourth out of 800 candidates. He left 4 years later and, attracted by advertising and graphic creation, he worked for Publicitas. He lived in an attic, avenue de l'Opera, in a bedsitting-room lent by Publicitas. In 1955, he was chosen to illustrate the Paris Gold Book. He already realized gouaches and oil-paintings, during his leisure time. Since 1958, Serge LASSUS has devoted all his time to painting, exhibiting in France and abroad. After a classical period proceeding from the education he had been given and from the influence of great Masters such as Cezanne and Dufy, Serge LASSUS has researched simplification and aestheticism in his work, both in the form and in the colour. Serge LASSUS is especially famous for his horses; the Prehistoric and Antique frescoes have had an influence upon his graphics, characterized by the pureness of the lines. The vivid colours he employs in his landscapes strenghten the almost unreal, timeless, mysterious atmosphere of his works.