Olivier Debré

Biography

Olivier Debré

( 1920, Paris - 1999, Paris )

The work of Olivier Debré is characterized by a gestural painting. His art is close from the one of Impressionist artists "I am very close, I repeat it, to Impressionists. Whether I paint with wide brush strokes or  I put "touches", I am painting my emotions."

Close to the monochrome, his works took monumental dimensions over time. By putting the pictorial material on fluid background, Olivier Debré shows the chromatic ambiance and the emotion felt looking at a landscape.

Exhibitions selected

2011 - Les Sujets de l'abstraction, Peinture non-figurative de la Seconde École de Paris (1946-1962), Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, Musée Rath, Geneva
2011 - Olivier Debré, un abstrait lyrique, Musée d'Ixelles, Belgium
2003 - Olivier Debré, oeuvres de la dation, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris
1998 - History Museum, Pékin et le Modern Art Museum, Hong-Kong
1997 - Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1995 - Rétrospective, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris

Collections

Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg
National Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Fogg Art Museum, Boston, USA
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordanie