Debré, Olivier, Untitled 3, 1988
1988
India ink on paper
115 x 78 cm
Signed by the artist lower right
“For the first time, interiority expresses itself through something that is not an image but is a visualization; but, an unprecedented novelty, this visualization takes place directly on the outside, and without the intermediary of the legible.“
Olivier Debré, Bernard Noël, Flammarion, 1994.
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.
