Piguet
"L'après"
Watercolour
Original catalogue wording
"L'après"
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2024-09-12 — 2024-09-25
Published result : 200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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Fred Deux
Born : 1924Documented citizenships : France
Fred Deux (1924–2015), a French draughtsman and writer, grew up in a working-class family in Boulogne-Billancourt. After factory work and the Resistance, he worked in a Marseille bookshop, discovering Surrealist literature and modern painting. Encountering Paul Klee’s work in 1948 encouraged his self-taught commitment to drawing. His partner Cécile Reims translated many of his compositions into copper engravings.
His drawings often begin with an ink stain, developed into networks of forms through cycles that revisit and transform earlier motifs. Writing accompanied this exploration, notably La Gana, published under the pseudonym Jean Douassot. He also embarked on an extensive spoken autobiography combining memory and fiction. Two hundred hours of these recordings entered the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1999. He settled in La Châtre in 1985.
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Piguet
L'ancienne voix
Watercolour
Original catalogue wording
L'ancienne voix
aquarelle
Catalogue period : 2014-12-10
Published result : 1200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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