Olivier Debré (French, 1920-1999) Untitled Oil... Lot 515

Olivier Debré (French, 1920-1999) Untitled Oil on canvas. Height. 22 Width. 27 cm. Provenance : offered in the year 2000 to the painter Catherine Barthémy. Certificate of authenticity n° C.23.444 of the Olivier Debré Archives and notice of inclusion in the catalog raisonné by Sylvie Debré-Huerre, dated February 15, 2023. Bibliography : - Eric de Chassey and Lydia Harambourg, Olivier Debré, Expressions Contemporaines, 2007, works to Untitled, c. 1990, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm (coll. part.); Untitled, c. 1990, oil on canvas, 60 x 92 cm (coll. part.); Untitled, c. 1990, oil on canvas, 63 x 86 cm (coll. part.), reproduced on pp. 152 and 153. DEBRE, THE EXPLORATION OF INTENSE REALITY "The art - the painting in this case - comes from the depths of the being, from the bottom. It escapes in fact to the individual will. One expects from art an opening on the elusive. Gide says precisely that one ignores what that one brings in a conscious and concerted way takes part of the superficial and the facility. Interviews with Olivier Debré, 1996, Le cherche midi éditeur If Debré's works touch the world and can touch us today, it is indeed thanks to this poetic invitation from the artist: to touch the work with the eyes and to flood the mind with colors. However, it is after many years that the artist takes this artistic path, thanks to a rupture both personal and historical, the emotion of the Liberation and the revelations of the atrocities of the Second World War. Debré then followed in the footsteps of impressionism and the observation of unrepresentability. Touched to the point of deciding to break with "ancestral painting" Debré refuses the solution of the primitivist to which so many of his contemporaries succumb. His work finally consists in exploring by new ways, according to methods which are his own, the most intense reality.