Olivier Debré Original Signed Lithograph Xxth Century

  
Olivier debré, born April 14, 1920 in Paris where he died on 1 June 1999, was a French painter, a leading representative of lyrical labstraction. He is the son of Professor Robert debré, brother of Michel debré's father Patrick debré, and uncle Bernard debré and jean-louis debré. Third child of Robert and Jeanne debate debré-ponsan (daughter of painter debate edward-ponsan), the young olive tree is a good student in high school montaigne in paris. He spends his holidays in nazelles with his maternal grandfather, Edouard-debate ponsan, who encouraged him to paint, draw and sculpt, and then from 1933 in the field the Madeiras acquired by his father vernou-sur-Brenne , he inherited with his sister in 1978 and where he installed since one of its workshops.

After the second part of his philosophy baccalaureate, he enrolled in 1937 to study architecture at the School of Fine Arts of Paris in the workshop of his uncle Jacques-ponsan debate, and falls at the Sorbonne for a story that gets license in 1942. He attended the studio of Le Corbusier.

Around 1950 he favors material and muted colors. Olivier debré exposes in New York to view gallery. He was invited to the lounge which it may participate until his death.

In 1951 the gallery bookshop this crow's nest for the first time the olive debré engravings. The following year, he participated in his first exhibition in October that includes the most significant painters of the abstract and non-figurative art. He rubs shoulders geneviève asse, claude bellegarde Francis bott, jeans Degottex, Pierre Dmitrienko, doucet Jacques, Jacques Germain, Charles Lapicque, Jean Messagier, Kumi Sugai, Zao wou-ki, among others. 1953 represents a turning point in the olive debré work that abandons the signs-signs-characters to landscapes. It is then that he realizes the multiple possibilities offered by the technique of lithography that he never stopped practicing.

He participated for the first time in 1954 at the show comparisons. In 1956, Michel Warren had his first solo exhibition in Paris. The following year, the second exhibition at the Michel Warren is included. \John wrote in prossot apollo whose cover reproduces the painting exhibited. After a trip to Spain, he exhibited in 1959 at the Phillips gallery in Washington.

In May, the first solo exhibition at Knoedler Gallery in the United States, with a preface Courthion stone. He participated today painters in the Palazzo delle Arti in Turin. In the early 1960s, he returned to the landscape, his painting is more fluid with thick concretions punctuation that define and create space. He describes his painting fervent abstraction because it symbolizes the emotion before the landscape. In 1960, he exhibited at the Knoedler in paris. The press echoed the event. During the summer, he stayed in Veneto with her family. The following year, he made another trip to Spain with his son Patrick. In 1962, he traveled to Greece with his family. In the fall, an exhibition of his works was held at the Athenaeum Museum in Geneva. He participated for the first time at large and young people living today in Paris. It exposes a chest carved placed on a metal base to 2-antagonisms exposure object at Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. In 1963, double exposure Knoedler gallery in Paris and in New York. The poet Francis sponge who wrote the text for the two catalogs, which for olive debré.

The press is widely reported event in France as in the United States; on this occasion, olive debré returns to New York where he met Mark Rothko for the second time. The item \The seller is \This item can be shipped to the following countries: america, europe, asia, australia.

1. Period: XXth contemporary <\/ li>
2. Type: lithography <\/ li>
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