Camille Bryen
Composition 133, 1956
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm
Countersigned, dated and numbered on the back
633 / 5 000 Camille Bryen (1907-1977) In 1956, non-figurative art could be considered history. Bryen exhibited at the Rodolphe Stadler Gallery, whose owner had hired Michel Tapié. The works on...
Camille Bryen (1907-1977) In 1956, non-figurative art could be considered history. Bryen exhibited at the Rodolphe Stadler Gallery, whose owner had hired Michel Tapié. The works on display help to describe a turning point in the painter's work. He is notably quoted in an article in Le Monde on November 23:
"The shock effect of abstraction is now blunted. We must return to working with the quality of the canvas."
Little by little, the brutal aspect of the artist's early paintings faded, giving way to a more complex and pictorially dense oeuvre.
Provenance
Private collection, ParisLiterature
Cat. rais. Jacqueline Boutet-Loyer « Camille Bryen, l’oeuvre peint », Paris,
Jacqueline Boutet-Loyer, 1986, repoduit et décrit sous le n°133, page 128