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FRED DEUX (1924-2015)
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FRED DEUX (1924-2015)
Conversation with LIN TSI, 1996
Mixed media recto-verso,
Front: signed, dated lower right and titled lower left
Verso: signed and dated lower right, numbered 4120 lower left, titled lower center, upper left a text by the artistMixed media recto-verso
: signed, dated on the lower right and titled on the lower left
Verso : signed and dated on the lower right, numbered 4120 on the lower left, titled on the lower center, on the upper left a text by the artist 22.5 x 16.8 cm
8 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.
PROVENANCE Private collection, France
FRED DEUX
Fred Deux (1924-2015) was a French illustrator and writer. His desire for artistic expression stemmed from several traumas early in life: his adoptive father’s suicide, a serious leg injury during the war that left him limping for the rest of his life and miserable living conditions. «I have suffered many traumas in my life,” he wrote, “and it is by writing and painting that I have healed myself: either I die or I write or I paint it all».
Like the rest of his work, the drawing Conversations with Lin Tsi is as painstakingly crafted as a spider web. An almost organic figure in the centre seems to suffocate between walls and clouds of watercolour, while another proliferates autonomously, even viscerally. Like a conversation, the forms take unpredictable directions, isolated or aggregated, and respond to each other. On the reverse side, the conversation becomes even more blurred, but a few lines stand out against a bright background.
L’autre passé (“The Other Past”) is another meticulous drawing of an organic figure, suggesting a heart, as if Deux were showing the inside of his body. The extremely thin grid on the surface of the paper suggests a bandage, while the drops of scarlet gouache are like blood stains. The title alone recalls the artist’s past, which he has succeeded in sublimating through art. As George Braque said: «Art is a wound that becomes
Conversation with LIN TSI, 1996
Mixed media recto-verso,
Front: signed, dated lower right and titled lower left
Verso: signed and dated lower right, numbered 4120 lower left, titled lower center, upper left a text by the artistMixed media recto-verso
: signed, dated on the lower right and titled on the lower left
Verso : signed and dated on the lower right, numbered 4120 on the lower left, titled on the lower center, on the upper left a text by the artist 22.5 x 16.8 cm
8 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.
PROVENANCE Private collection, France
FRED DEUX
Fred Deux (1924-2015) was a French illustrator and writer. His desire for artistic expression stemmed from several traumas early in life: his adoptive father’s suicide, a serious leg injury during the war that left him limping for the rest of his life and miserable living conditions. «I have suffered many traumas in my life,” he wrote, “and it is by writing and painting that I have healed myself: either I die or I write or I paint it all».
Like the rest of his work, the drawing Conversations with Lin Tsi is as painstakingly crafted as a spider web. An almost organic figure in the centre seems to suffocate between walls and clouds of watercolour, while another proliferates autonomously, even viscerally. Like a conversation, the forms take unpredictable directions, isolated or aggregated, and respond to each other. On the reverse side, the conversation becomes even more blurred, but a few lines stand out against a bright background.
L’autre passé (“The Other Past”) is another meticulous drawing of an organic figure, suggesting a heart, as if Deux were showing the inside of his body. The extremely thin grid on the surface of the paper suggests a bandage, while the drops of scarlet gouache are like blood stains. The title alone recalls the artist’s past, which he has succeeded in sublimating through art. As George Braque said: «Art is a wound that becomes