Jean Dewasne

Selected Works

Jean DEWASNE Âge de vivre, vers 1960 Laque glycérophtalique sur isorel 97 x 130 cm _Provenance _ Collection Daniel Cordier_Courtesy Galerie Patrice Trigano1.jpg

Jean Dewasne
Âge de vivre, vers 1960
Laque glycérophtalique
97 x 130 cm
Estampillé au dos

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Jean DEWASNE Coeur libre, vers 1970 Laque glycérophtalique sur panneau 50 x 65 cm Signée au dos _Provenance_ Succession de l'artiste_Courtesy Galerie Patrice Trigano copie.2.jpg

Jean Dewasne
Coeur libre, circa 1970
Glycerophthalic lacquer on pannel
50 x 65 cm
Signed at the back

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Jean DEWASNE Homéostasie, vers1970 Laque glycérophtalique sur panneau 50 x 65 cm Titrée et signée au dos _Provenance succession de l'artiste_Courtesy Galerie Patrice Trigano copie.jpg

Jean Dewasne
Homéostasie, circa 1970
Laque glycérophtalique sur panneau
50 x 65 cm
Inclinée et signée

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Jean DEWASNE Ile Bulle, 1975 Laque glycérophtalique sur panneau copie.jpg

Jean Dewasne
Île Bulle, 1975
Laque glycérophtalique
97 x 130 cm
Daté et signé au dos

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Jean Dewasne
Vent d’Est, circa 1960
Glycerophthalic lacquer on pannel
121 x 183 cm
Stamped on the back

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Jean Dewasne
Environnement Mythia I, 1971
Laque glycérophtalique
75 x 98 cm
Signé, daté et incliné

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Jean Dewasne
Composition, circa 1970
Gouache sur carton
50 x 65 cm
Signée au dos

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Some of the works depicted are no longer available.

Biography

Jean Dewasne, a leading member of the " Abstraction Construite " movement, as he calls it, theorizes free painting, transcending all figurative constraints, a painting rich in forms and colors with a universal language. Many of his writings can be found in the most avant-garde magazines of the post-war years, which earned him great recognition from institutions and critics.

Jean Dewasne (1939 - 1989), a painter from the North, devoted fifty years of his life to abstract art as a major artist of the Geometric Abstraction movement. Both a practitioner and theoretician, he developed his own artistic system in the late 1940s.
Dewasne focused his teaching on the "Technology of painting", which consists of the study of color chemistry, the theory of vision, physiology, and colorimetry. He has two ways of understanding color: "light color" and "material color". His priority is to capture the maximum intensity of color while maintaining the principles of topology.
Jean Dewasne began writing the " Traité d'une peinture plane " at the age of 30, a major and most penetrating text on pictorial aesthetics, a plea for a free painting, transcended by any figurative constraint, a painting rich in forms and colors with a universal language.

The artist is passionate about the industrial world, so he places his work in the city, multiplying flat or three-dimensional works, we can find the murals for the Gori factory in Denmark (1979), Le Stade de glace in Grenoble (1968), or La Grande Arche de la Défense (1989). In 1970, Dewasne advised the architects of the Centre Pompidou to add color to the facade and thus make it an immense anti-sculpture. He wanted his work to be inscribed in timelessness. Considered a major artist of Geometric Abstraction, he was encouraged by art critics and galleries, such as Denise René and Daniel Cordier who passionately defended this movement. In 1991, he was elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts to the seat of Hans Hartung.

Public Collections

Centre G. Pompidou , Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, paris, Musée de Grenoble, France, La Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris, Musée Départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cis, Musée de Cambrai , Cambrai, Lieu d'Art et d'Action Contemporaine, Dunkerque, Museum of Modern Art, New York