Gérard SchneiderSans Titre
1954
Gouache on paper laid down on cardboard
Signed and dated
19.61 x 24.21 in ( 49.8 x 61.5 cm )

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This work is created in a very spontaneous way, with lively gestures and fleeting, in which we feel the artist's desire to bring out intense emotions. These lines attempt to capture the fleeting moment of the gesture. Colors bring sparkle and light. The composition is cleverly composed, it evokes a tumultuous force, a hurricane. Paper has a very important place in Schneider's work. It is not a domain reserved for study and research, it is a space for the development of his work in its own right.

Gérard Schneider is a Swiss painter born in 1896 in Sainte-Croix and died in Paris in 1986. He is an artist who has done all his classics, first trying out the figurative world, still life and even surealism. From the Second World War, he moved towards a style that never left him: abstraction.

Powerful canvases, so-called action paintings where the artist creates in a very spontaneous way, with a gesture of a lively and fleeting brush. Gérard Schneider does not seek to represent something real but rather to bring out intense emotions in the production of his works. Indeed, we find in the abstract compositions, forms and movements specific to the artist, with the use of many colors that meet his taste and which gives him a certain effect that he cannot do without, while giving a richness to his works to bring out a certain sound taste.

A musical will of the touch that we find in the name of his works (indeed, all these pictorial compositions have the name "Opus", (as if he had produced his own music). Let us not forget that he was a musician and devoted many hours to musical improvisation.

Gérard Schneider first shone abroad, before being considered a recognized leader in abstraction in France.