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1978, Smacks in the staircase

Acryl sur papier Arches | Collection particulière

Smacks, the painter’s counterpart who gave himself up to film-making, surges and is carried away in a cascade of blue, yellow and red polygons which seem to tumble down those yellow steps with blue rises, against a red background. It was the year when parodying the phrase of Barnet Newmann, his American colleague: “Who is afraid of Blue, Yellow, Red? “ the artist let the three primary colours invade the painting, drawing and carving of his universe.

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