Jean DEGOTTEX (1918-1988) - Lot 60

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Jean DEGOTTEX (1918-1988) - Lot 60
Jean DEGOTTEX (1918-1988) Oblicollor against black - 24-8-1983, 1983 Acrylic, glue on cotton canvas titled and dated 24-8-1983 on the back, signed with the studio stamp on the back. 230 x 205 cm Provenance: Galerie de France, Paris (gallery label on back); private collection. Bibliography: - Degottex, Jean Frémon, éditions du Regard, Paris, 1986, reproduced on pages 234 and 303. - Jean Degottex/Aki Kuroda, Eighty magazine n°29 of 1/09/1989, reproduced. - Jean Degottex, Maurice Benhamou, Bernard Heidsieck, René Mabin, Pierre Wat, exhibition catalog of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, 2008, reproduced page 184. "Nothing before, nothing after, all while doing" Jean Degottex "As a young artist close to lyrical abstraction, whose calligraphic signs were admired by André Breton, Jean Degottex was attracted, from the 1950s, to Zen thought. "All writings are attractive," he said, "but I believe that when they are not accessible, everything takes on a different meaning. There is a transcendence of the sign in Sumi or Zen calligraphy, but how do you approach the transcendence of a Western sign? Everyone invents a vocabulary and transcends it in their own way." All his life, Degottex will have practiced this research, until the blossoming of the last years, when he had reached works of this type: acrylic and glue on cotton canvas. No color, but Indian ink. These parallel black or white bands drawn with a flat brush of 18 cm form metasigns where one must look for, as Mallarmé would say, "an attempt at language above conventional language". Jean-Luc Chalumeau, May 2022
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