Yves Laloy

Yves Laloy was a French painter often linked to Surrealism, though he quickly forged a highly personal path. Trained as an architect, he combined geometric rigor with a fascination for the imaginary, the symbolic, and the cosmic. Praised by André Breton, Laloy developed a visual language that lies between abstraction, mysticism, and poetic invention. This 1960 painting, animated by rows of dots and lines in vivid primary colors, evokes at once a coded diagram, a musical score, or a constellation map. Its rhythm emerges from repetition and variation: sequences of points, stripes, and bars create a visual cadence both rigorous and playful.

The work reflects Laloy’s architectural training while affirming his desire to invent a personal syntax of signs. Beyond geometric abstraction, it stands like an enigmatic language — at once rational and poetic— where color and structure become carriers of hidden meaning.