André LANSKOY Untitled Oil on canvas Signed lower left "Lanskoy 60.5 x 49.5 cm Oil on canvas; signed lower left 23.81 x 19.48 in. Provenance: Collection Philippe Dennery To the present owner by inheritance In this vigorous composition, André Lanskoy displays the full richness of his abstract pictorial language through a dynamic palette of colours and shapes. Using a thick paste applied in broad, expressive strokes, the work bears witness to the influence of Fauvism and Expressionism, as well as the Byzantine tradition so dear to the Russian-French artist. Each coloured fragment seems to resonate with the others, in a constant tension between construction and spontaneity. Lanskoy, a major figure in lyrical abstraction and an active member of the École de Paris, explores here a quasi-musical structure of painting: without a narrative subject, the canvas vibrates to the rhythm of chromatic contrasts and textures. The work invites a sensory reading, where colour becomes language and matter, affirming the purely emotional dimension of art. André LANSKOY