Olivier Debré (French, 1920-1999) Untitled, c.... Lot 25

Olivier Debré (French, 1920-1999) Untitled, c. 1973 Canvas. Height 100 cm, width 100 cm (restoration) Provenance: Touraine collection. Certificate of authenticity n° C.22.395 from the Olivier Debré Archives and notice of inclusion in the catalog raisonné by Sylvie Debré-Huerre, dated September 17, 2022. "It (my painting) is not at all an abstract impressionism. Intellectually the problem is different. You have to have some kind of need to express yourself and above all, you have to have it imposed on you. You don't have to have a conscious, concerted, voluntary desire for impressions. What interests me is that the part of me that paints is a part of a sensitive and moved individual, that the thing, as it were, passes through me and that I dominate it intellectually, that I guide its development, but that it walks alone. This is how I become an element of nature, I become something that is handled. When I am like the wind, like the rain, like the passing water, I participate in nature and nature passes through me. I could do this with my eyes closed. Basically, I'm not sure that painting is interesting in itself, or music, or architecture, or anything. It's interesting for something other than oneself. Without that, one asks oneself a question of painter. (...) I am only interested in painting as something that participates in the world, that participates in thought." Olivier Debré, interview with Daniel Abadie, 1974