About the artwork
With a palette of mainly red colors and a few touches of blue, green and pink, Olivier Debré sketches the curtain for the Comédie-Française stage. The work was commissioned by the Comédie-Française as part of a major public commission, and was completed in 1987. With ample gestures, he spreads the color from bottom to top with a spontaneity that suggests movement. A true testament to his creativity, the artist immerses the viewer in the immensity of his abstraction.
Expert opinion
A major work in Olivier Debré's oeuvre, this sketch bears witness to one of the most important public commissions ever entrusted to him by a prestigious and internationally renowned institution, the Comédie-Française.
About the artist
Born in Paris in 1920 and died in June 1999, Olivier Debré was a painter belonging to the lyrical abstraction movement. Before devoting himself to painting in the 1940s, he studied architecture at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in the studio of his uncle Jacques Debat-Ponsan. For him, architecture was an extension of art. He attended Le Corbusier's studio in parallel with his studies, and befriended Pablo Picasso in 1941, a friendship that would influence his work. Today considered a major player in lyrical abstraction, he is internationally recognized, and his work is included in major collections (Strasbourg, Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain; Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Pompidou; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte moderna; Amman, The Jordan Museum; Taipei, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts; Cardiff, Fine Arts Museum...). His paintings inspired the ballet "Signes" conceived by choreographer Carolyn Carlso and presented at the Opéra Bastille in 2003.
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