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Composition , dated 1952
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
Features a sketch on the back of the canvas
Dimensions: 73 x 60 cm
With frame: 99 x 86 cm
Oscar Gauthier delivers a dynamic painting, populated with vibrant colors. Described as a craftsman of color, he is above all a master of the line. In this Composition , the artist holds the attention of the spectators in the foreground. The geometric shapes are punctuated by points of strength, and punctuate with dexterity on the surface of the canvas, which one would believe to be a musical score.
Born in Nièvre, Oscar Gauthier moved to Paris at the age of ten. Around the age of twenty, he trained at the Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière (Othon Friesz's workshop). His studies were turned upside down by World War II, he joined the Resistance. In 1947, he obtained a scholarship to stay in the United States. He travels to Mexico, discovers pre-Columbian art and Mexican muralists, is greatly inspired and sells some paintings.
Back in France in 1948, he was supported by the Colette Allandy gallery. He left it to join the group of the painter John-Franklin Koenig in Saint-Germain-des-Prés around 1952. They were supported by Jean-Robert Arnaud who, together with the painter John-Franklin Koenig, opened a gallery at 34 rue du Four. For ten years, the place was the crossroads of Lyrical Abstraction, or “Lyric Landscaping” (or to use Michel Ragon's term).
