Gouache on paper Philippe Lepatre, Lyrical Abstraction, 1967 - France
Splendid gouache on paper signed and dated by Philippe Lepatre in 1967. It belongs to the current of the Lyrical Abstraction. In it we observe large spots of color in blue, red and black.
On the back of the work we find some labels written in French, placed in the exhibition where it was exhibited. They tell us about the artist and briefly describe the work. They also indicate the year of this exhibition and the other artists who participated:
"Born in Paris, French school. Exhibition of works on paper with Olivier Debré, Ladislas Kijno, Camille Bryen, Pierre Tal-Coat in 1970. His gestural graphics stand out. Freed from appearances, he shapes his sensations with the rhythms of the universe. Gouache on paper. Signed with monogram and dated 1967".
This exhibition took place in Paris in 1970 and was entitled L'abstraction lyrique. As the labels indicate, it featured Camille Bryen, Olivier Debré, Ladislas Kijno, Philippe Lepatre and Pierre Tal-Coat.
Philippe Lepatre (Bucharest, 1900 - Paris, 1979)
Pseudonym of Philippe Lazar, Philippe Lepatre was a painter and engraver of the French school. His works are signed with the monogram "PL".
Although the label states that he was born in Paris, this artist was actually of Romanian origin and moved to Paris in 1928, although he later moved to Berlin to study architecture. During World War II he took refuge in the south of France where he began to paint, as is the case with other artists such as Dubuffet. After the war he returned to Paris to devote himself to painting and engraving. His work is framed in the Lyrical Abstraction and acquires an intellectualized character, supporting his work in philosophical texts.
Placing universality as the "supreme principle", he synthesizes his training as an architect and his abstract pictorial vocation by affirming as inconceivable "a mural art that is not non-figurative, because it is the only one that fits quite naturally in Modern Architecture: non-figurative art is this language of a new universal tradition, of a new world where the sign becomes reality, and reality becomes signs. It is to figurative art what algebra is to mathematics".
Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction is a term that designates several currents. First of all, it refers to the abstract painting initiated by Kandinsky in 1910 with his Murnau watercolors. The artists who joined this trend sought to express their emotions through painting, refusing to represent reality both figuratively and objectively.
But, after World War II, another European artistic movement was born, also called Abstraction Lyrique, which is undoubtedly heir and continuator of the original one, initiated by Kandinsky. This artistic movement emerged in the mid-1940s in Paris and was baptized by the art critic Jean José Marchand and the painter Georges Mathieu in 1947. It therefore occurred at the same time as American Abstract Expressionism, with which it shares common features: an abstract art (non-figurative), with thick brushstrokes, a great variety of colors and color fields, in which the canvas is a place of personal expression for the artist.
Dimensions: 54 x 47 x 3 cm / 37 x 28 cm
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