Lot n° 89
- Lot 89
Martin BASDEVANT (Born in 1973)
The chapel
2019
Unique work, signed, framed. Pastel on paper, 36 x 48 cm (frame 50 x 60 cm)
"There is currently a room at the Musée d'Orsay dedicated exclusively to Pierre Bonnard's drawings, which can be seen at the "Bonnard/Vuillard" exhibition, in the midst of a group of paintings and pastels. This room is very instructive as it was empty of visitors when Martin Basdevant and I visited it last week. I mean, the space was deserted, that part of his work is clearly being ignored. Yet, if Bonnard was an extraordinary colourist - the point is well taken - he was perhaps an even more remarkable valorist. The charms and boldness of his colours have acted, paradoxically, as the tree that hides the forest of his black and white work. However, Matisse said that a colorist is recognizable by his use of pencil on a sheet of paper. This is to be taken seriously.
Look at a charcoal or a pastel of Martin Basdevant, you will recognize the Nabi gold that he knew how to harvest with a rare success, and that he would have delicately merged with a certain American expressionism. But you will also notice his inclination towards the sublime, his fascination for the great expanses of virgin nature, in particular his pleasure in celebrating the topographical swarming of a bushy ground, of a path in a valley which becomes that of his painting itself.
For this draughtsman is a painter. Both lyrical and intimate, he has succeeded in developing his work sheltered from the din of car horns, reactivating with happiness and singularity some beautiful memories not yet completely extinguished by museums. "For the painter, it is not a question of painting the never seen, but what has not been seen enough" wrote Delacroix somewhere in his diary. "
Morgan BANCON, February 2017 - Documents Gallery 15
Starting price 100€.
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