One of the sales dedicated to the collection of the gallery owner Daniel Varenne organized by the house PIASA offers several works of the American artist Valérie Jaudon, true icon of the movement Pattern and Decoration.
After studying at the Memphis Academy of Art from 1965, and then at the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City for two years, Valérie Jaudon studied at Gillian Ayres at the Saint Martins School of Art in London (1968-1969).
She then moved to New York. Fascinated by non-Western art, architecture and its ornaments, she seeks visual forms common to different cultures, which she uses in her first abstract works. Defending the decorative value of art and opposing masculine pre-eminence in abstraction, she is one of the major figures of the Pattern and Decoration movement, which developed in the United States in the mid-1970s, around the painters Richard Kalina, her husband Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Shapiro and Robert R. Zakanitch.
Without any illusion of depth, his paintings start from a basic decorative structure, the pattern, which is developed on a given surface.
Valérie Jaudon (née en 1945)
Mantrose, 1983
Huile sur toile
238 x 295 cm
Provenance :
- Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
- Galerie Daniel Varenne, Genève
Estimation: 6 000 / 9 000 euros
The repetition of motifs and the juxtaposition of similar abstract elements meet in symmetry or intertwine on monochrome backgrounds of bright colours, like Mantrose an oil on canvas realized in 1983. This piece is offered for sale with an estimate of between 6,000 and 9,000 euros. Daniel Varenne acquired it at Sidney Janis Gallery in New York, where the artist's work was the subject of numerous exhibitions during the 1980s.
