Olivier DEBRÉ (1920-1999) - Lot 44

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Olivier DEBRÉ (1920-1999) - Lot 44
Olivier DEBRÉ (1920-1999) Big Blue, 1964 Oil on canvas signed, titled and dated on the back. 225 x 195 cm PROVENANCE: Gérald Piltzer Gallery, Paris; private collection. EXHIBITIONS : - Olivier Debré retrospective, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1995. - Olivier Debré, Galleria del Credito, Milan, 1996. Olivier Debré, Art Museum, Reykjavic, 1996. - Olivier Debré, Museo de Bellas Artes, Mexico, 1997. Olivier Debré, Museum of Rio de Janeiro, 1997. - Olivier Debré, Museum of the Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1998. Olivier Debré, Hong-kong Museum of Art, Hong-Kong, 1998. - Olivier Debré, Kanagawa, Museum of Modern Art, Taipei, 1998. - Hommage à Olivier Debré, Peintures 1963-1990, Centre d'arts plastiques, Royan, 2000. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Olivier Debré, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1995, reproduced in the exhibition catalog, page 75. Olivier Debré, Revue Eighty, n°26, reproduced. Olivier Debré 1963-1990, Centre d'arts plastiques, Royan, 2000, reproduced in the exhibition catalog. "An undisputed master of lyrical abstraction, Olivier Debré, who divided his time between the banks of the Loire and his Parisian studio in the rue de la Planche, had come to designate his paintings only by the indication of their color and, eventually, the place of inspiration. He named the color because "color is the space where the emotional event is located." Alfred Pacquement rightly observed that "Debré's painting is a painting of invading the surface. Nothing escapes the color, no void comes to oppose the global saturation of the space." In this painting, we can see that, on the beaches painted in successive transparencies, sediments of matter, in the lower part, give rhythm and delimit the space. These are by no means accidents, but very conscious pictorial interventions, which are the characteristic mark of the artist, one of the most important French painters of the 20th century." Jean-Luc Chalumeau, May 2022
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