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Tobe raised near the Mediterranean sea on the French Riviera did not follow any formal art studies nor held an art diploma. Tobe is more of a globe trotter adventurer and an intuitive Painter. Tobe’s work reflects his satiric way of seeing our world, his work is a celebration of forms and colors. His paintings are exuberant, each of the four thousand painting is unique! Although perfectly aware of his talent in capturing and painting his surrounding personages during all his life he never considerate himself as a professional painter he collected all his drawing and never sold any of his numerous paintings. Today Tobe’s funny and unique way to see the world by (le petit bout de la lorgnette) as he will say is for you to see and enjoy. His legacy is like if he painted his memoirs instead of writing a book Please enter and see the fantastic world of Tobe.
Unlike most of the contemporary painters that focuses on a specific theme whose surrealist works, with their subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy Tobe painted more like a photographer would paint snap shots. Although you can recognize Tobe’s unusual style that often has a whimsical or humorous quality in each of his paintings. The themes are various and never repeated so are the forms and color combination. Tobe’s work is a a gold mine for decorators and interior designers his extensive work give’s them enormous possibilities. As Tobe said, the world is not Black and white, there is Bright colors in life and the embracing of bright colors is something that Tobe knows best.
Tobe’s talent in capturing his surrounding containing images of playfully distorted human and animal forms, twisted organic shapes, and odd geometric constructions, was exacerbate by his coming to the Western Hemisphere the scale of the new world and the colors of the tropical Caribbean and Later on some of the paintings influenced by the pastel colors of the art Deco district in Miami Beach and more recently by metallic colors Gold Silver as well as a return into bright color association that remain in his memory like the smell of rosemary, thyme and laurel from his native Provence, the song of the cicadas and the test of the Pastis at the terrace of a café facing the deep blue Mediterranean sea.
For more information see: http://www.tobegallery.com
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