Rene DuvillierArc en Ciel Abstract Expressionist French Oil Painting Nouvelle École d'Paris, 1990

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Rene Duvillier (French, 1919-2002), "Arc en Ciel, Arc en Mer" 1990, oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed, titled, and … Read more Rene Duvillier (French, 1919-2002), "Arc en Ciel, Arc en Mer" 1990, oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed, titled, and dated verso, Provenance: gallery label from Galerie Mostini, Paris, France affixed verso,
canvas: 25.5"h x 32"w, overall (with frame): 27.5"h x 33.75"
Done in a bold, vibrant, blue with red and white.

René Duvillier (1919-2002) Born in Oyonnax (Ain) and died in 2002 in Paris. French artist. Painter of the new school in Paris.
Despite studying at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (workshop of Charles Guerin, pupil of Gustave Moreau), Duvillier nevertheless asserted himself to be self-taught.
1939-1945: Five years of captivity. Duvillier was deported to Ukraine and then to Poland for several escape attempts and for acts of resistance.
1945: moves to Paris.
1952: A decisive meeting with Charles Estienne , an influential critic who tried to reconcile gestural abstraction and surrealist automatism. This integrates him into the group of painters of the new school in Paris which he shows at the gallery of Babylon. This is how Duvillier got to know Jean Degottex, Jean Messagier, Hans Hartung, Charles Lapicque and Serge Poliakoff. He was very much supported by the critic to whom great intellectual complicity links him.
1954-1955: René Duvillier, invited to Brittany by Charles Estienne , discovers the sea: "I found the movement and the gesture, it was a dreadful shock" explains the painter. Duvillier painted a series of polychrome canvases (black, purple, blue) on the sea as well as the series of "Seahorses", colored inks on paper. He was part of the New Ecole de Paris along with Nicolas de Staël, André Lanskoy, Pierre Soulages, and Jean René Bazaine.
1966: Contacts with scientists (CERN, School of Chemistry, Faculty of Geneva ). Duvillier discovers an astonishing similarity between some of his works and photos of physical and cosmic phenomena. Professor at the National School of Architecture of Versailles.
René Duvillier joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1935. After five years of captivity and an exhibition at the Stalag in Krakow, he joined the Nouvelle École de Paris. Under the guidance of the art critic Charles Estienne, it gathered painters from Surrealism and gesture or lyric abstraction that finally won the art scene in 1955. André Breton exhibited him and Benjamin Péret exalted his pictorial work, in which the brush movement brings to life natural elements, sea striking rocks and giving them almost supernatural attributes (1955).

Select exhibitions

2010 - Ivre de peinture, Galerie Alain Margaron, Paris
2009 - René Duvillier, Galerie L'Or du Temps, Paris
2008 - Vous êtes le feu dans l'eau, Galerie Alain Margaron, Nice
2003 - Accrochage d'oeuvres de René Duvillier, Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris
2003 - Ici - Ailleurs, Galerie Doris Benno, Saint-Paul-De-Vence
1999 - À l'Ouest du Monde, FIAC, Paris
1993 - Le ciel de la mer, Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris
1987 - Peintures 1955-1983, Galerie Mostini, Paris
1986 - Galerie du Manoir, La Chaux de Fonds, Suisse
1971 - Ensemble de Peinture, Palais des Expositions, Genève
1970 - Têtes Chercheuses, Galerie Le Lutrin, Lyon
1965 - Benrath et Duvillier, Galerie Argos, Nantes
1964 - Galerie Byron, New York
1961 - La Mer des Vents, Galerie Smith, Bruxelles
1943 - La Genése, Stalag de Cracovie, Kobierzyn

Select Group Exhibitions

2017 - Ailleurs est ici, École des Filles, Huelgoat
2017 - Le geste et la matière une abstraction "autre" Paris, 1945-1965, Fondation Clément/Centre Pompidou, Martinique
2011 - L'Aventure de l'Art Abstrait, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, Brest
2008 - Les Nuagistes, Collégiale Saint-André, Chartres
2002 - Art ou Nature ?, Musée du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
1999 - Actualité des collections du XXe siècle 1996-1999, musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
1999 - L'Intimité des dessins, Galerie Alain Margaron, Paris
1997 - Un combat pour l'Art Moderne, Hommage à René Déroudille., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon
1995 - Nantes et le surréalisme, Musée des beaux-arts de Nantes, Nantes
1991 - André Breton, La beauté convulsive, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
1990 - André Breton, Musée national, Madrid
1989 - I Surrealisti, Palazzo Reale, Milan
1987 - Le Visionnaire, Galerie du Manoir, La Chaux de Fonds, Suisse
1986 - Blanc/Noir/Blanc, Centre Culturel de Landerneau et Musée des Jacobins, Morlaix
1984 - Autour de Michel Ragon, Paris Art Center, Paris
1981 - Paris-Paris 1937-1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1980 - Bilan de l'art contemporain, Palais des Congrès, Québec
1973 - Exposition internationale du dessin original, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Skopje, Yougoslavie
1971 - Présence Européenne, Galerie La Bussola, Turin
1968 - Peinture française contemporaine, Musées de Belgrade, Prague, Bucarest, Varsovie et Zagreb
1967 - Le Visage de l'Homme dans l'Art Contemporain, Musée Rath, Genève
1967 - Pavillon Français, Exposition Universelle de Montréal, Montréal
1967 - Dix Ans d'Art Vivant 1955-1965, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence
1966 - Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
1965 - Art in Science, Institut d'histoire et d'art, Albany, Etats-Unis
1963 - Art contemporain, Grand Palais, Paris
1962 - 10 Malere fra Paris, Galerie Birch, Copenhague
1961 - Les 41 présentent Iris Clert, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris
1959 - L'Air et L'Eau, Galerie Saint-Augustin, Paris
1953 - Younger European Painters, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York See less