Still Life With A Bottle Of Wine And Lemons By Roger Dérieux

Born in Paris in 1922 and deceased in 2015, Roger Dérieux developed an artistic style marked by lyricism and elegance. In 1924, he met the artist Francis Picabia, and three years later, he began painting.

In 1943, he was conscripted and transferred to Salzburg for compulsory labor service, where he became a set painter at the Landestheater.

At the end of the war, he enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in the studio of André Lhote, an artist associated with Cubism whose teaching and writings were considered seminal.

Using a minimalist approach, he painted still lifes, landscapes, and portraits.

Along with Debré, Poliakoff, Estève, and Soulages, he participated in the most popular postwar art events.

Then, in the 1980s, just as so-called “free figuration” was making a comeback, Roger Dérieux turned to abstraction, using collage as an extension of painting.

He used oil paint to paint on thin sheets of paper, or pieces of pages and sheet music, which he crumpled and then cut up to arrange them into abstract figures: “Collage has proven to be a space of freedom with infinite possibilities for me and has allowed me to enter the pure realm of plastic values.” He practices collage like a painter: painting and gluing become inseparable actions. Unlike the assemblages of Surrealist artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Dérieux does not wish to reveal the paper’s original form. When he uses printed materials, he often conceals them under a layer of paint. The clean cuts in his paper pieces evoke a distant memory of Cubism.

Roger Dérieux’s collages evoke what Henry Raynal called a “basse continue”—a term borrowed from musical language, to which the artist is attuned—which refers to a technique of improvising a part based on a written foundation, where little by little the work reveals itself through a more or less controlled randomness or a desired order.

For Roger Dérieux, the abstract image affords a purer, more poetic space for reverie and allows one to recapture the emotion felt in a moment that resurfaces in memory.

Style:French School

Condition:Very good condition

Technique:Oil on canvas

Other:Signed lower right

Dimensions: 54 x 73 cm

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