Olivier DEBRE (1920-1999)

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6000 - 8000 EUR
Olivier DEBRE (1920-1999)
"Pink Ochre Sign" Oil on canvas of 1985, 38 x 61 cm, signed, titled and dated on the back on the canvas. Provenance: Acquired by the current owner in 1987. A major painter of lyrical abstraction, he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1937, after the aesthetic shock of Picasso's Guernica. In 1949, after his first solo exhibition at Samuel Bing's Paris gallery, he became one of the leading figures of the Ecole de Paris. Olivier Debré is the grandson of the painter Edouard Debat-Ponsan, the son of Professor Robert Debré, whose name is on a Paris hospital, and the brother of Michel Debré, General de Gaulle's first minister. High resolution photos (Lots will be delivered in Lausanne, Geneva, Paris, Lyon or Marseille a few days after the sale) Estimate: 6 000 - 8 000 € "Pink ochre sign" Oil on canvas 1985, 38 x 61 cm, signed, titled and dated on the back on the canvas. Provenance: Acquired by the present owner in 1987. A major painter of lyrical abstraction, he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1937, after the aesthetic shock of Picasso's Guernica. In 1949, after his first solo exhibition at Samuel Bing's Paris gallery, he became one of the leading figures of the Ecole de Paris. Olivier Debré is the grandson of the painter Edouard Debat-Ponsan, the son of Professor Robert Debré, after whom a Paris hospital is named, and the brother of Michel Debré, General de Gaulle's prime minister. High resolution photos (Delivery of lots in Lausanne, Geneva or Paris (rue Drouot) to Marseille a few days after the sale) Estimate: 6 000 - 8 000 €
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