Olivier Debre ART FOR SALE

1920 Paris, France - 1999 Paris, France. Known for: Abstract painting, large scale public art.

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Following is The New York Times obituary of Olivier Debre. Olivier Debre, 79, a Leader Of France's Abstract Artists. By Alan Riding, June 6, 1999. Olivier Debre, one of France's best-known abstract painters of the postwar era, whose large-format works include the stage curtain at the Comedie Francaise, died here on Tuesday. He was 79 and lived in Paris. Mr. Debre's form of abstract art, which he described as ''opposite to the geometric abstraction of the Cubism of Cezanne and Picasso,'' involved daring splashes of color applied with thick brush strokes intended to create a mood of sensuality and poetry. ''For me, painting and emotion are inseparable,'' he said at the time of his last major retrospective in Paris, in 1995 at the Galerie du... Read full biography

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Les trois musiciens

Type:Painting

Year:1948

Size:15.00" x 21.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Verso

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Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Private Collection, NY. Framed dimensions 21 ½ x 27 ½ inches (54.6 x 70 cm). Signed, dated and titled verso: O Debré 1948 “Les trois musiciens”.

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