In spite of his discreet and humble character (some paintings are signed Nihil, ‘nothing’), Armand Niquille was honored by several retrospective exhibitions held in Canton Fribourg during his lifetime.

[4] From 1929 until his death the same preoccupation ran through Niquille's artistic creation, ‘a double path’[5] which lead critics to study his work by subjects rather than by periods.

The other path of Niquille's pictorial creation, nocturnal paintings, depict mystical allegories, personal reflection on the mysteries of Faith, occasionally inspired by Christian literature.

In them the artist seeks to ‘invoke(...)the mystery of the sacred.’[6] Being an admirer of the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Armand Niquille used old painting techniques such as tempera.

He also attached a particular importance to the laws of composition and to the rigorous organization of space, using the traditional mise au carré, a method learned at the Technicum.

The many people present at this event discovered the bronze commemorative plaque that the foundation commissioned from the artist Marc Monteleone, an admirer and great connoisseur of Niquille's work.

It shows a portrait of Armand Niquille, inspired by one of his self-portraits painted in 1954, and a quotation from the artist, taken from his book "Le veilleur de solitude".