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Olivier Debré

Olivier Debré

Born 1920 in Paris, died 1999.

Olivier Debré (1920–1999) occupies an essential place in the history of twentieth-century French painting. Associated with lyrical abstraction, he developed very early a profoundly personal approach to painting, at a distance from any school in the strict sense. Coming from an environment attuned to creation, he was the grandson of the painter Édouard Debat-Ponsan, he studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and frequented Le Corbusier’s studio. But it was by quickly emancipating himself from architecture that he affirmed his total commitment to painting, which he conceived as a space of experience rather than of representation.

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INA, fresques « En scènes »INA, fresques « En scènes » Carolyn Carlson et Olivier Debré dans Signes Watch ↗
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Arts in the City Exposition la peinture en scène, Olivier Debré au Pavillon comtesse de Caen 20 August 2026 ↗ Causeur La revanche d’Olivier Debré 28 June 2026 ↗ Les Nautes de Paris Olivier Debré à Shanghaï, Hong Kong, Paris : « Peinture en scène » 19 June 2026 ↗ Radio VINCI Autoroutes À Dinard, la villa Les Roches Brunes, écrin d’abstraction pour olivier Debré 22 October 2025 ↗ Art Critique Exposition Olivier Debré à Dinard – Villa Les Roches Brunes 2 October 2025 ↗
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