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John Adams Fine Art Ltd
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OSCAR GAUTHIER
Syncopated Rhythm
( France
c. 1960
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Medium
Oil on canvas
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Signed/Inscribed/Dated
Signed
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Dimensions
65.00cm wide
81.00cm high
(25.59 inches wide 31.89 inches high)
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Condition:
Excellent
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Description / Expertise
Oscar Gauthier was born in Fours in 1921. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris between 1941 and 1947; during the same period, he worked at the studio of Friesz. After a stay in the US, in 1948 he met the artists Sonia Delauny, Gleizes, Picabia and Hartnung along with younger artists such as Atlan and Corneille. Deprived of creative opportunities during his formative years, which coincided with German occupation and the subsequent prohibitions of the era, he was nonetheless one of the first painters of his generation to discover the resources of abstraction. Gauthier’s work may be placed in the tradition of what the critic Michel Ragon called ‘paysagisme abstrait’ (Abstract Landscape).
In 1944, 1945 and 1946 he exhibited at the Salon des Moins de trente ans and also featured in a number of exhibitions including: Salon d’Octobre, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Salon des Comparaisons, Salon de Mai and the Salon d’Automne. He also participated in several group exhibitions, namely: Fifty Years of Abstract Painting, Paris, 1957; The Age of Jazz at the Musée Galliéra, Paris, 1967; the 10th Prix Lissone, Milan, 1957; Nouvelle Ecole de Paris at the Kunsthalle, Mannheim, 1958; 6th Biennale, Sao Paolo, 1961.
In the Sixties he adopted a European version of the American Pop Art movement. Between 1965 and 1969 – a period he called ‘the best of all worlds’ – he took subjects from Music Hall: acrobats, dancers and contortionists, representing their movements by the abstract inter-relation between dots and circles. Later in his career, he focussed on natural detail in a series called Botanographies; sometimes taking prints of genuine foliage and at other times using their silhouettes. He also completed a number of murals and exterior paintings; notably, a mosaic at the Lycée Classique de Mauberge and a mural, Paradis pour Libellule (Paradise for a Dragonfly), for the Technical Lycée at Saint-Quentin.
He is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, Paris and the Municipal Art Gallery, Paris.
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