Annabelle DEROUANNE (1972). - Lot 69

Annabelle DEROUANNE (1972). The Balloon Woman. Oil on canvas signed upper right and dated 2011. 195 x 97 cm. Annabelle Derouanné, a Touraine artist specializing in trompe-l'œil between 1995 and 2017, produced a series of abstract canvases between 2000 and 2012, around 130 of which were 90% sold, for private collectors. The works presented today are the artist's last. First of all, "La femme ballon", a unique, one-off work using porcelain paint on an acrylic background, is a masterly format expressing purity, graphics and power. The works to follow are inspired by Mondrian, a counterpoint and extension of the artist's perfect flat primary colors. Annabelle Derouanné uses black as a backdrop, with the thickness of the coulures forming superimposed landscapes of living forms.