Philippe Dereux Large 1960s French Art Brut Lithograph Bold Black & White Op Art Philippe Dereux 1967

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printed by Pierre Chave, Vence, published by Bianchi Frères in Nice, France
ink on watermarked chiffon de Mandeure paper, hand … Read more printed by Pierre Chave, Vence, published by Bianchi Frères in Nice, France
ink on watermarked chiffon de Mandeure paper, hand signed in pencil lower right, "PH Dureux," numbered 4/50 lower left, titled in pencil center.
This might be a silkscreen or lithograph technique.

Philippe Dereux was a French artist, born in Lyon in 1918, he was a teacher by profession. Widely known and appreciated for his abstract and decorative collages based on fruit and vegetable peelings. His work was featured in exhibitions at the Collection de l'Art Brut and the Halle Saint Pierre.
He was a collaborator of Jean Dubuffet in Vence in the mid-1950s, later going out on his own around 1960. Dereux's works are covered with plant elements (fruits or vegetable peels, flora and fauna). Abstract and decorative works in which he incorporated peelings of fruits, eggplants or potatoes glued with vinyl glue on cardboard and colored with gouache. He also made butterfly wing collage and assemblage works. His work, while boldly unique, bears many influences Art Brut, Outsider art, Enrico Baj, Aboriginal art, Tribal art, These works bear the influence of the black & white Op Art of Victor Vasarely and Yaacov Agam
(He was collected and showed with Alphonse Chave. An art lover, dealer and collector. On November 15, 1947 in Vence, under the name Les Mages, he opened a contemporary art gallery which would also become a high place of art brut, Naive and unique art. The gallery took its final name - Galerie Alphonse Chave - in 1960. He exhibited Dado, Philippe Dereux, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Henri michaux, Louis Pons, Man ray, Dorothea Tanning, Zao Wou-ki as well as other creators.)

Many public exhibitions were dedicated to him during his lifetime in Vence , Lyon , Grenoble and Paris :

1964: Fifty years of collages , Musée de Saint-Étienne, Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris.
1968: Living art, Fondation Maeght .
1984: Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris.
1985: Flaine Art Center.
1997: Neuve Invention Musée de l'art brut de Lausanne.
1999: Villefranche sur Saône cultural center and events in London and New York.
2003: Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris.

Exhibitions at the Galerie Alphonse Chave in Vence:
1965: The peeling work
1968: Pure peelings, trimmed peels , paintings, lithographs.
1972: High Tension
1981-1983: XX years of peelings
1989: Theaters of peeling .
1994: The little treatise on peelings
1999: One life
2007: Retrospective of works from 1960 to 2000
2009: Exhibition Dereux / Dubuffet, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
2012: Philippe Dereux (1918-2001). Memories of peelings, Chave gallery, Vence. The retrospective is made up of Dereux's personal collection, many of which have never been shown. There are more than one hundred and forty works exhibited.
2014: Le Mur, works by Philippe Dereux exhibited, with the 1200 works from the Antoine de Galbert collection at La Maison rouge, Antoine-de-Galbert foundation.
Epluchures, Galerie Pleine Marge, Paris, 1988
Plastic Arts Space, Villefranche Cultural Center, 1999
Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris, 2003
The Red House, Paris, 2009 See less