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Mécanique 5, noirs et bleus en mouvement, huile attribuée à Maurice Gasquet

Un fond gris perle, balayé à grands gestes, reçoit de lourdes masses noires qui barrent la toile en haut et en bas. Entre elles, des boucles d'outremer tracent des ellipses, comme des roues emportées dans un même élan, et quelques éclats de jaune s'allument dans l'ombre. La pâte est épaisse, raclée par endroits, pleine de reprises ; dans le bas, autour de l'inscription, elle montre un réseau de fines craquelures. En bas, un peu à droite du centre, se lit une inscription en capitales, GASQUET. La toile flotte dans une caisse noire soulignée d'un filet de bois clair, qui laisse respirer ses bords.

Maurice Gasquet, dit Vasco, naît en 1931 et meurt en 2009 ; les dates données par la fiche permettent ce rapprochement, que la fiche ne fait pas elle-même. Peintre français tourné dès la fin des années 1950 vers l'abstraction et la non-figuration, il pratique aussi la gravure, la gouache et la sculpture, et siège au comité du Salon de la Jeune Peinture. Il crée un totem pour BP au circuit du Mans. La galerie attribue cette toile à Maurice Gasquet ; au revers, la toile porte l'inscription M. GASQUET Mécanique 5, et le numéro du titre suggère une série, sans que rien ne l'établisse.

Époque
XXe siècle
Matière
Huile sur toile
Attribution
Attribué à Maurice Gasquet, 1931-2009
Titre
Mécanique 5
Dimensions
L. 130 × h. 98 cm
État
En l'état
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A pearl-grey ground, swept with broad gestures, receives heavy black masses that bar the canvas above and below. Between them, loops of ultramarine trace ellipses, like wheels carried along in a single momentum, and a few flashes of yellow kindle in the shadow. The paint is thick, scraped in places, full of reworkings; at the bottom, around the inscription, it shows a network of fine cracks. At the bottom, a little to the right of centre, an inscription in capitals reads GASQUET. The canvas floats in a black shadow box picked out with a fillet of pale wood, which leaves its edges room to breathe.

Maurice Gasquet, known as Vasco, was born in 1931 and died in 2009; the dates given by the listing allow this identification, which the listing itself does not make. A French painter drawn from the late 1950s to abstraction and non-figuration, he also worked in etching, gouache and sculpture and sat on the committee of the Salon de la Jeune Peinture. He created a totem for BP at the Le Mans circuit. The gallery attributes this canvas to Maurice Gasquet; on the reverse, the canvas bears the inscription M. GASQUET Mécanique 5, and the number in the title suggests a series, though nothing establishes it.

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  • Maurice Gasquet dit Vasco, peintre français actif de la fin des années 1950 à l'abstraction et à la non-figuration, a travaillé la peinture, la gravure, la gouache et la sculpture, siégé au comité du Salon de la Jeune Peinture et créé un totem pour BP au circuit du Mans. http://peinturevascogasquet.blogspot.com/

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