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Oil on canvas Still life with two heads dated 65, from Wally Findlay Gallery New York.
Born in Paris in 1922, after having lived and worked in Paris and Ardèche, Roger Dérieux set up his workshop in the Lot, in Pern, in 2009. Passionate about poetry, friend of Picabia and Ponge, traveling companion of Debré, Poliakoff , Estève and Soulages with whom he participated in the most popular artistic events of the post-war period, Roger Dérieux developed a pictorial language that made him stand out among all. Since its beginnings, it has pursued an independent journey towards an increasingly stripped-down language. Starting from an expression favoring color and open to the outside world, it came to an interiorization and an abandonment of any directly readable representation.
His brand is that of classic elegance, economy of means and chromatic subtleties. His repertoire (still lifes, figures in the studio, Nordic and industrial landscapes, skies carried by wind-swept valleys) is striking with its expressive bursts and harmonic audacity. Then his series of “Cities”, treated in an increasingly allusive way, led him to collage, which, since the 1980s, has represented for him a direct extension of painting. Quite rarely using pre-existing elements, preparing and painting in oil the papers he uses as his work progresses, he often mixes painting and collage and arranges it into abstract figures, perfect balance, his ends colored papers
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