If he hadn’t been a painter, he would certainly have been a good foreman at Peugeot. But the experience in a factory only lasted for 3 years!… He was convinced that he was meant for something different.
Once he had stepped over, he was at the start of leading a bohemian life for years to come. Arthure was ready to deprive himself as long as he could paint again and again. He lived off fishing, mushroom picking, growing vegetables out of his birth village, Velles (Haute-Marne, France).
At the end of summer 1979, he would migrate to the south of France to help harvesting, it is in the iconic artist café that he met Valérie, a professor at the conservatory of classic guitar. Two artists if you will, what could be a better combination. In parallel to her career she was also his agent, marketer and constant support as well as the mother of their daughter Yovhanna.
Arthure’s career and reputation gradually increased with collectors in his department, region, and then national and international. At the end of the nineties Arthure’s work was known in countries such as Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Belgium and many more. He participated to numerous international contemporary art exhibitions, as well as hosting countless solo exhibitions around the world and all year round. The first of two books on his life was published in 2002.
