Gérard SchneiderComposition
1979
Gouache, pastel and ink on paper
Signed and dated
14.57 x 20.87 in ( 37 x 53 cm )
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Certificat

Catalogue Raisonné n° GS-P-79-031

Provenance

Eddy Novarro, gift of the artist

Private Collection, Germany

Literature

Who is who, E.Novarro and the avant-garde from the 50s to the 70s, Wienand,
2011, p. 206


K. Uhl, M. Bleyl, Kaleidoskop der moderne. Chagall, Miró, Picasso und die Avantgarde, Staatliches Museum Schwerin Vienne, p. 150, 296

Exhibited

Pablo Picasso Museum, Munster, Germany, 2011

Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany, 2015

Artwork's description

This artwork is created in a very spontaneous way, with a lively and fleeting gesture, in which one feels the will of the artist to bring out intense emotions. The colors burst with force and emotion, and even give a Japanese dimension to the work.

This drawing was given to Eddy Novarro, a famous photographer known for these portraits of artists, and to his wife Nana, who was both his assistant and his accomplice. “He attended the greats of this world and also the princely courts, but he knew how to prefer the world of contemporary arts to them. Dozens and dozens of faces, but above all a horizon of looks. Yes, Novarro is the master of the look. »(Pierre Restany).

Artist's biography

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.

Gérard Schneider - Composition, 1979
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