LAUBIES René (1924-2006) - Lot 86

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LAUBIES René (1924-2006) - Lot 86
LAUBIES René (1924-2006) Untitled Lithograph Signed lower right in the margin and numbered 38/40 lower left 55 x 38 cm Note : "'If René Laubiès' (1924-2006) work had to be linked to an artistic trend, it would not be "nuagism", a term invented in the 1950s by the critic Julien Alvard to qualify a weightless lyrical abstraction. What Alvard compared to clouds was in reality, for Laubiès, the application of the principles of Chinese painting, whose most important treatise on aesthetics and landscape under the Song dynasty he is said to have translated in 1950 (Guo Xi's 11th century High Message of Forests and Springs). Born in Vietnam, son of a Reunionese Creole of Chinese origin, Laubiès favored in his painting, according to Asian precepts, "the empty and the full, the frontal [] the atmospheric, the suggested, the allusive", the atmosphere meaning here the atmosphere and not the gaseous layer surrounding the globe. But his painting does not stop with the Chinese influence. It evolves over time. It is mixed with European and American art. Black and white at the end of the 1940s, it takes on colours, gets rid of signs, becomes aerial (the famous "clouds"), then simplifies again, returns to earth, takes on the appearance of barely sketched landscapes, almost disappears. This is what characterizes Laubiès' work: erasure. Like Jean Degottex, like Pierrette Bloch, René Laubiès removes the superfluous. He does it in his own way, sometimes keeping in the last inks and watercolours only the single brushstroke, the one that is "the origin of all things, the root of all phenomena", wrote Shitao in the 17th century.[...]" - Ref : Telerama - Olivier Cena - 23/02/2019
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