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
Fernande Decruck 1954. Full title as published by Costallat: "Sonate en ut dièze : pour saxophone alto mi-b (ou alto à corde) avec accompagnement de piano ou orchestre" () This Sonata is in four movements: I. ‘Tres modéré, expressif’ II. Noël III. Fileuse IV. Nocturne et Rondel Fernande Decruck Fernande Decruck (née Breilh) (25 December 18966 August 1954) was a French composer who composed over 40 works for the saxophone. Most well-known is her Sonata in C sharp minor for alto saxophone or viola, dedicated to Marcel Mule. She was born in the village of Gaillac in France to a local merchant.