ARTIST: Oscar Gauthier (1921–2009)

DATE: 1949

TECHNIQUE(s): Gouache on paper

DIMENSIONS: 10 x 12.5 in

SIGNATURE: At the bottom right: “OSCAR GAUTHIER / 49”

ABOUT: This gouache on crumpled paper has a complex composition, structured on the entire page by the play of color, in places cut by a black line. This work reveals Gauthier’s tension between spontaneity and reason for the gesture during the creation of the colored form.