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Lot 10

Hélène Delprat

Blast 3, 2019

Pigments and acrylic on canvas
100 × 80 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse H. Delprat 2019

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Hélène Delprat (b. 1957 in Amiens) lives and works in Paris. She won a scholarship that enabled her to spend the years 1982 to 1984 at the Villa Medici in Rome. Over the past four decades, Delprat the painter, video artist, set designer and blogger has developed a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary body of work. She is represented by both the Galerie Christophe Gaillard and, since 2023, by Hauser & Wirth, whose Paris gallery staged a solo exhibition of her works in early 2024. 

Blast 3 belongs to a series of three works of 2019 that are typical of Delprat’s distinctive and painterly approach to art. The chaotic complexity of her paintings reflects the kind of layerings that are an essential aspect of several different artistic genres as well as many of her sources of inspiration, including comics, newspaper illustrations, feature f ilms, Abstract Expressionism, English literature and Renaissance art – to name but a few. Blast 3 shows sketchy figures emerging from multiple layers of splintered splashes of paint, organic shapes, grids and lines, as if surfacing unbidden from the obscure depths of memory. Delprat is fascinated by paradoxes and contrasts and creates works in which the comical runs up against the repulsive and the figurative against the abstract. Her imaginary universe is adorned with pigments and gold sequins – and populated by fantastically deformed monsters.

Pigments and acrylic on canvas 

100 × 80 cm 

Signed and dated on the reverse H. Delprat 2019 

Copyright: Hélène Delprat 

Provenance: donated by Marie-Puck Broodthaers

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