Daniel Pommereulle

The work

Untitled
2002
64 x 93 cm
Pencil and gouache on paper

This elemental work, simple and austere in both medium and form, was created by Pommereulle the year before his untimely death. The simplicity of the black pencil lines and the three gouache stains, which evoke orifices or bodily wounds, call for a thoughtful reflection on an image that brings together aspects of abstraction, expressionism, and minimalism.

The artist

(Sceaux, France, 1937 – Paris, 2003)

Throughout his career, he produced an anti-academic work, opposed to any decorative aspirations. He was a poet of forms, always in search of what Leonardo defined art as “a thing of the mind.”