Eugène Leroy, 5 works
The messy appearance of Leroy's thick works also exudes a certain kinship with dripping, the art of the American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). And Eugene Leroy worked like a Willem De Kooning with perseverance on soulful landscapes. A photo symbolizes Leroy's artistic approach: we see the painter in his studio full of paintings waiting to be reworked, pots of color, flowers and an ashtray placed on an electric heater and on the left a large skeleton with crossed leg bones. The figurative approach structures the painting, but the good flesh of the color provides the material for abstraction and expression. To savor this, one must both dive into the paintings and immediately step back. Without physical distance, the paintings are unreadable.
For Leroy, painting is the emotion of a gesture. The originality and importance of his painting were discovered very late. In 1988, the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris devoted a retrospective exhibition to him. On the international scene, his definitive breakthrough came in 1992 with his success at documenta 9 in Kassel, Germany. With his sense of material and his dynamic movement of colors, Leroy had greatly impressed the famous German painter Baselitz, himself a follower of expressive and gestural painting.
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Eugène LEROY
Eugène LEROY (1910-2000) - Trois personnages - Dessin au crayon et daté (19)66 - 60 x 46 cm ( à vue)
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| | LOT n°35
Eugène LEROY
Eugène LEROY (1910-2000) - Visage - Dessin au crayon - Signé et daté (19)61- 60 x 46 cm ( à vue)
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| | LOT n°36
Eugène LEROY
Eugène LEROY (1910-2000) - Nus - Dessin au crayon signé en bas à droite et daté (19)61 - 63 x 48 cm ( à vue)
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| | LOT n°38
Eugène LEROY
Eugène LEROY (1910-2000) - Paysage, 1962 - Huile sur toile Signé - contresigné et daté 1962 au dos - 60 x 81 cm
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| | LOT n°37
Eugène LEROY
Eugène LEROY (1910-2000) - Paysage, 1961 - Huile sur toile signé en bas à droite - Contresigné et daté 1961 - 61 x 46 cm
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