Debré, Olivier, Untitled 1, 1988
1988
Original India ink on paper
78 x 115 cm
Signed by the artist lower right
One of Olivier Debré’s ambitions is to create a perspectivist, impressionist, cubist language, as each generation has its own,” he explained in an interview in February 1989. Here, language, with its rules and fixed conventions, is not opposed to feeling; on the contrary, it alone makes possible the expression of the most intimate and spontaneous feelings.” Olivier Debré, Prints and Illustrated Books, Emmanuel Pernoud
About the author
Olivier Debré (1920-1999)
A major French painter on the art scene in the second half of the 20th century, Olivier Debré’s monumental, colorful, non-figurative work is an exact reflection of the way we experience reality. His vast canvases, composed of large swathes of fluid color, bring him closer to the “color-field painting” of American abstract expressionists such as Morris Louis and Clifford Still. His black-and-white etchings retain a very painterly feel.
