Yves Decaudan - Beauté éthérée

Portrait painting "Ethereal Beauty" - 2026
An original work that will bring an artistic and modern touch to your décor.
The work features an abstract, vertical composition on an immaculate white background. The central form revolves around colored masses with organic outlines in royal blue, bright red, orange, yellow, pink and brown, interlocked with one another. Fine wavy lines drawn in graphite traverse and emanate from these flat areas, creating airy extensions.
Yves Decaudan's signature appears at the bottom right.
The heart of the canvas is very dense, while the edges remain untouched, establishing a strong contrast between void and matter. The structure suggests a silhouette in motion, almost an anthropomorphic figure or a winged creature in full flight.
The treatment of the shapes recalls the work of great 20th-century masters such as Joan Miró for the lightness of the line and the organic aspect, or Henri Matisse in his cutouts, combined with the synthesism of colors of the Nouvelle École de Paris like Serge Poliakoff.
The artist’s work is characterized by expressive and poetic figuration, driven by a keen sense of color and the synthesis of forms. The artist favors fields of pure, intense colors — such as this deep blue confronted with brilliant red — creating an immediate, luminous visual tension.
The silhouettes are outlined and simplified, going straight to the essence without lingering on anatomical detail or strict realism, which brings his work closer to Fauvism or the art poster. His subjects, often solitary, convey a feeling of stillness, serenity, or dreamlike suspension in time.
Paintings exhibited in numerous private collections in Europe, North America, Africa and Oceania.
‘The ready-to-view visuals are AI visualizations based on photographs of the real object. The photographs of the real object are authoritative.
Portrait of the painter Yves Decaudan - 1954
Delivered with certificate of authenticity, direct from the studio.
Painted at the Paris Autumn Salon in 2022.
Acrylic on cotton canvas, wooden frame, unframed, dimensions 80 x 80 cm
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