Pierre Doutreleau (French, b. 1938)

Skier. Oil on canvas, signed lower right, in a gilt frame with linen liner, overall 40" x 33".

Pierre Doutreleau is a French painter born in Arles in 1938. At the age of 20, he discovered the work of Nicolas de Stael and started practicing painting. Thanks to Hélèna Cingria, he met Lucile Manguin, who had just opened a gallery in Paris and they signed a contract in 1964. In 1968, during a trip to the United States, he had an artistic epiphany about the topics of speed and movement. Two main subjects are addressed in his work: mobility and fixity. At the beginning of his work, Pierre Doutreleau painted mainly motionless surfaces. He then developed an interest for cinema and television, and then for sport and athletes. His ambition is to paint movement to translate life. In order to do that he combines two ingredients: drama and pleasure.

Condition: Drips/accrections to lower quarter of canvas with corresponding staining to liner, undulation to lower right of canvas, indentation to upper right area of canvas on skiier's helmut, some spots of canvas not originally painted from original artistic process, surface soils. Staining to liner.