Olivier Debré Olivier Debré Olivier Debré (1920–1999) was a French abstract painter. It is following a visit to Pablo Picasso’s studio in 1941 that Olivier Debré, an honoured artist and member of the French Academy, moved from figurative painting to abstraction, and the influence of André Lanskoy that awakened his marked fondness for colour. A major painter of colour fields of the Post-War period, this painter described his painting as ""fervent abstraction"" because it arouses emotions, emotion incarnated by him by the sign. ""I really tried to find how within a sign and without using conventions, I could express something without using
Claire Bertrand (painter) Claire Bertrand (painter) Claire Bertrand-Eisenschitz, also known as Claire Bertrand was a French expressionist Artist, born in Sèvres (now in the Hauts-de-Seine) in 1890, and died in 1969. She was the wife of the painter Willy Eisenschitz, also a French painter and draftsman. As a painter of the expressionist school, Claire Bertrand focused mainly landscapes and portraits, which reduces the grounds to basics. She mainly exhibited her works in Paris and in the south of france. Born in 1890 in Sèvres (Seine-et-Oise, now in the Hauts-de-Seine), Claire Bertrand is the daughter of Marcel Bertrand geologist and Mathilde Mascart, a talented