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Louise Barbu (1931-2021) Espace sensuel November 1983 Oil on…
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Louise Barbu (1931-2021) Espace sensuel November 1983 Oil on…
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Lot no. 114
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Louise Barbu (1931-2021) Espace sensuel November 1983 Oil on polychrome canvas signed and dated on the edge, countersigned and countersigned on the back 22 x 27 cm Provenance: > Private collection from the Lyon region
Self-taught, represented by the Iris Clert gallery from 1975 to 1984, having chosen traditional artistic technique at the age of minimalism and perpetuating abstract research at the time of the return to figuration, Louise Barbu is an absolutely singular artist, following her own path.
From the plants she glued to her canvas in the 60s, she soon retained only the outlines, which she played with to the point of "distorting everything" until, in the 70s, she was able to paint shapes that she "no longer encountered". Organic forms echoing Arp and Yves Tanguy, sensual, evolving in contact with each other and over time. Autonomous forms, possessing their own system of light and shadow from the 1980s onwards, which would undoubtedly have pleased Fernand Léger, and of which only the artist has the secret.
In her demanding daily practice, Louise Barbu remained faithful to biomorphic abstraction, which she continued to renew until the end of her life. In this, in particular, she stood out from Georgia O'Keeffe, with whom she shared an organic aesthetic. Her contribution to abstraction in the second half of the twentieth century is still downplayed, and probably won't be for much longer.
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