Georges BREUIL, 1904-1997 Composition in red and... Lot 11

Georges BREUIL, 1904-1997 Composition in red and green oil on canvas, signed lower right (illegible) 81 x 100 cm Born in 1904, Georges Breuil attended the Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts in Rouen. After five years of captivity in Germany during the Second World War, he turned to abstraction, encouraged by his friends Georges Braque and Jacques Villon, and exhibited for the first time at the Colette Allendy gallery in Paris in 1953. He also wrote an essay, Sublimation de l'art abstrait, published in 1965. "What path should the abstract artist follow today? He must express human communion with the cosmos; his symbolic language must enable man to break through the envelope of the known and access this deeper knowledge of nature or reality. By means of forms, harmonies and rhythms - in other words, what in science we call the discontinuous, the only thing perceptible by our senses - it must try to convey the notion of reality and permanence of the universe, of continuity." Georges Breuil Provenance: Henry GALY-CARLES Collection