Éric Alibert (born 1958) is a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

, specialising in

nature Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the Ecosphere (planetary), ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the Scientific law, laws, elements and phenomenon, phenomena of the physic ...

and

animals Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia (). With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a ...

. He is also the author of books dedicated to several important natural sites of the world. He uses watercolour, oil, acrylic as well as other techniques including the use of gold leaves. His works are inspired by regions such as the main European national parks, as well as Syria, Namibia, Venezuela and Japan. There is also an influence of poetic sources, such as

Philippe Jaccottet Philippe Jaccottet (; 30 June 1925 – 24 February 2021) was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator. Life and work After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived for several years in Paris. In 1953, he moved to the town of Grignan in ...

Novalis Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (; ), was a German nobility, German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and Mysticism, mystic. He is regarded as an inf ...

and

Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar (, ; ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 190317 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and ...

and of plastic artists like Soulages, Viollet-le-Duc and

Rembrandt Bugatti Rembrandt Bugatti (16 October 1884 – 8 January 1916) was an Italian sculptor, known primarily for his bronze sculptures of wildlife subjects. During World War I, he volunteered for paramedical work at a military hospital in Antwerp, an experie ...

, to whom Alibert dedicated . Éric Alibert received the gold medal of the "artistes animaliers français
(ref.)
, has been awarded by the Fondation de la Vocation and is member of the U.S. Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. His works have been displayed in several exhibitions, including in the Museum d'histoire naturelle of Paris and of Geneva. There are owned by private and public collections. In 2012, the Castle of Saint-Maurice, Valais, Switzerland organises an important exposition of his most recent creations
Exhibition "Regards croisés Orient-Occident autour d'Eric Alibert"

Publications

* ''Voyage d'un peintre autour du

Mont-Blanc Mont Blanc (, ) is a mountain in the Alps, rising above sea level, located right at the France-Italy border, Franco-Italian border. It is the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus Mountains, the List of European ultra-prominent peaks ...

'', éditions Slatkine, 2011 * ''Nature souveraine - Le Parc national suisse'', with Pierre Rouyer, éditions du Midi, 2008, 176 p. * ''Couleurs du Venezuela. Des Caraïbes à l'Orénoque'', bilingual French-Spanish, éditions Somogy, 2007, 173 p. * ''Carnet d'un naturaliste amateur en Lubéron'', with Serge Bec, 2007, 125 p. * ''Parc naturel régional des Monts d'Ardèche'', with and audio-DC, 2007 * ''Namibie: De l'Okavango aux chutes Victoria. Carnet de voyages dans le Caprivi'', éditions Slatkine, 2006, 178 p. * ''Archipel des Cyclades'', with François Arvanitis, Jacques Anglès & Anne-Sophie Bourhis-Pozzoli, éditions Nathan, 2005 * ''Couleurs de Syrie'', éditions Somogy, 2004, 150 p.Couleurs de Syrie Éric Alibert - 2003 "Les œuvres d'Éric Alibert, qui illustrent si merveilleusement ces richesses et que ce livre vous invite à contempler, constituent autant un hommage émouvant et reconnaissant à la Syrie, qu'une sorte de retour à nos propres sources." * ''Parc naturel régional du massif des Bauges'', éditions Gallimard Loisirs, 2001 * ''Léman mon île'', éditions Slatkine, 2000 * ''Carnets Naturalistes en Provence'', éditions Nathan, 2000 * ''La Cote d'Opale'',

éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by G ...

, 1998 * ''Carnets Naturalistes autour du Mont Blanc'', with Daniel Aiagno & Jean-François Desmet, éditions Nathan 1996 * ''Guide du jeune naturaliste à la montagne'', éditions Delachaux et Niestlé, 1993 * ''Le grand livre des espèces disparues'', with

Jean-Christophe Balouet Jean-Christophe Balouet (12 November 1956 − 31 March 2021) was a French palaeontologist. He has collaborated extensively with Storrs Olson of the Smithsonian Institution on palaeornithological research on the extinct birds of New Caledonia in ...

, foreword by

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the A ...

, éditions Ouest-France, 1989, 197 p.

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Eric Alibert
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alibert, Eric 1958 births 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters 21st-century French painters 21st-century French male artists Living people Place of birth missing (living people)