Auguste SAUREL

Auguste SAUREL

"L'amour Perdu"
realised by AMANDINE COMTE

For this creation, I wanted to convey the emotion of an embrace, the ultimate symbol of love.
This work represents lost love through a number of distinctive artistic choices.
The embrace of Auguste and Mary-Rose is worked in a contrasting graphic style to distinguish the living from the non-living.
Mary-Rose is depicted with white lines, details in her hair and a few white glimmers of light.
She appears transparent, like a spectre, to signify her disappearance.
The posture of the two embracing figures conveys all the intensity of this lost love.
The idea is to be able to see through Mary-Rose's character.

Amandine Comte.

Auguste SAUREL. (Cavaillon 1892 – Maussane-les-Alpilles 1976)

A writer and poet, he moved with his parents to Mas de Pins in Eyguières.

Seduced by poetry, he joined the Society of French Poets and became a member of the Félibrige, where he met Frédéric Mistral.

On 15 August 1910, he met Mary-Rose Carias outside St Pierre de Grans church. It was love at first sight; he was 18, she barely 15.

Their platonic romance lasted a few months, before Mary-Rose was struck down by meningitis and died suddenly. Auguste spent his life dedicating poems to her.

Mobilised as a photographer during the 14-18 war, he travelled in France and then abroad. Back in Paris, he founded the Ste Agnès association to help unfortunate children. He chose the Maison de Retraite de Maussane les Alpilles to end his life peacefully and is buried in the village cemetery.

Many thanks to the commune of GRANS.

Link to the Félibrige:

https://www.felibrige.org/

https://www.felibrige.org/le-felibrige/vocabulaire/