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Jean-Louis Sauvat is not just a painter of horses, he is also a serious rider himself, and has collaborated in illustrating a number of very important books.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n His illustrations to the bi-lingual (French and English) work, Horse and Rider: Annotated Sketches, by the late Nuno Oliveira, are simply breath-taking, capturing perfectly the poetry of the Portuguese master in word and action.<\/p>\n He has also supplied brilliant illustrations for three masters, in the series, Les grand maitres expliqu\u00e9s: Caprilli, Baucher and La Gu\u00e9rini\u00e8re.<\/p>\n Sauvat’s Caprilli<\/em><\/p>\n Jean-Louis has also worked with another great French equestrian artist, Bartabas, crafting the sculptures for his performance, Tryptich, and more recently contributing sculptures and paintings in the re-opened stables of Louis XIV at Versailles.<\/p>\n Gu\u00e9rini\u00e8re.<\/em><\/p>\n For Jean-Louis his art merges with his life: “I started painting people – nudes and portraits, the relationship between movement and women, and also landscapes. I started painting horses 15 years ago because I was asked by a rider. I had friends who were riders, so it started there.”<\/p>\n When did you start to work with Bartabas?<\/p>\n “I constructed the sculptures for Tryptich. Bartabas had seen a small plaster that I had made, and he contacted me because he had the idea of working with sculptures in his show.”<\/p>\n You ride yourself?<\/p>\n “Every morning, dressage – for pleasure. I like to start with young horses and work with them for four years, until they are ready for Prix St Georges, and then give them back to the owner. I ride them until they are ready to do the High School movements – then I give them back, and start again with a young horse. I ride for mysellf, not to go in competitions. My pleasure is to see the horse progress and learn the movements.”<\/p>\n And painting horses?<\/p>\n “I work mosrly on things that I find, the circus horse sculpture in my show, is from a horse that was just tied with a rope by the road and that is the inspiration, just a horse in a little circus out on the road.”<\/p>\n Jean-Louis Sauvat is not just a painter of horses, he is also a serious rider himself, and has collaborated in illustrating a number of very important books. His illustrations to the bi-lingual (French and English) work, Horse and Rider: Annotated Sketches, by the late Nuno Oliveira, are simply breath-taking, capturing perfectly the poetry of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35938,"parent":14165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35934","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35934"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63962,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35934\/revisions\/63962"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SLegYield.jpg\")
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