Ode Bertrand (1930) - Sans titre

Original serigraphy by the French artist Ode Bertrand, recognized as a major reference in geometric abstraction in France and Europe.

This work bears witness to the precision and the demanding standards intrinsic to her practice. The print, of excellent quality, is produced on remarkable paper, offering visual presence and a fineness that sublimates the composition.

A pupil and assistant of Aurelie Nemours and thus, nourished by her example, Ode Bertrand has retained from the artist a rigor without compromise in the making of the canvas and in the formal purification that follows. Developing her own language, and for more than 40 years now, still painting in oil, Ode Bertrand is essentially interested in black and white. She concentrates mainly on the line. Systematically tracing on her supports a grid of straight lines on a white surface, she then applies the black to the graphic function which, in her view, allows her to structure space. The rigor remains in her works.