Michel DEGAND (1934-2001)- Traverse (Sleeper) 44.046, canvas, circa 2002-2008
Description
What I like
I like this gap in the black background of the canvas, which lets the light appear, like a stained glass window, eminently colored with greens and blues, creating undulating vertical patterns, here and there animated with red patterns, which we can be interpreted as flowers, why not poppies! This large shape welcoming color could be a tower, ancient architecture, a belfry! In any case, it is surely the emergence of life!
What amazement in front of this work by the great Michel Degand: we are delighted with his ability to create paintings of course, but also tapestries, so immense, as well as sculptural works so colorful… Certainly, many of his works are brought together in his native North; but there is no doubt that his talent will be recognized more internationally!!
I also like the size of this painting, which illuminates an entire section of wall, hollowing it out with its intense light: we are in the sky and in the waters at the same time, and the flowers remind us of the earth!
In the years 2002 to 2008, Michel Degand worked on the theme of sleepers, making prints, sculptures, using the veining of old sleepers to print a repeated vertical pattern: there is elsewhere but anchored in the here and now!
Technical description
Michel DEGAND (1934-2021)
Traverse (Sleeper) 44.046
Mixed media on canvas signed, titled and numbered on the back
From a Series executed between 2002 and 1008
Dimensions and weight
Height: 100 cm – Width: 70 cm – Depth: 4 cm
Weight:3 kg
Mix & Match
This important painting by Michel Degand opens the way but also opens the wall where it is exhibited: the here, the elsewhere, nothingness, and the irruption of the color of life: this work is optimistic and makes you want to take the life on the bright side!!
Its greens and blues are soft, but the groove patterns are vertical, dynamic and undulating!!
Suddenly, a whole atmosphere of great joy is created: the Grass Hopper armchairs by Sonja Wasseur appear more cheerful, the duck blue of the G10 armchairs by Pierre Guariche shines!!
Of course, the calm green of the Adirondack armchairs by Philippe Parent brings its spring air, while the white Orsay living room by Gae Aulenti brings its curves into play!
The period is very different but the cohabitation with the geometric abstraction of Edgard Pillet from 1950-1951 is peaceful because the rigor of Pillet is softened by the dreaminess of Degand!
All that remains is to choose a heavy colorless crystal lamp from Daum dating from the 1950s to perfect the harmony of your home!
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The painter
Michel Degand, born November 15, 1934 in Loos-lez-Lille (North) and died October 19, 2021 in Tourcoing, is a French artist, cardboard maker, painter, visual artist and sculptor
Michel Degand was very young when his grandfather, an artistic glazier and conductor, gave him a taste for music and drawing, and made him choose the profession of lithographic designer taught at the Baggio Technical College in Lille. At the age of 17, he returned to La Voix du Nord to learn the profession of photoengraver, and at the same time took general aesthetics courses at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lille. Appointed to Paris in the national navy for his military service, he attended the live model classes at La Grande Chaumière. Back in Lille, he became interested in the revival of tapestry and created no fewer than 250 tapestries woven from more than a hundred cartoons, mainly in the Ateliers Pinton in Felletin, but also at the Manufacture des Gobelins, at the Academy. in Tournai and in different workshops in Calais and Portugal. Numerous stays in the United States allowed him to exhibit in prestigious galleries such as the Wenger Gallery in San Francisco, the Carlsan Gallery in Chicago, etc. A retrospective of his works will be dedicated to him in 1979 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, then in 2013 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Arras.
He created several monumental works in tapestry and sculpture for the Lille courthouse, the Oaks hotel in Houston, for two metro stations in Lille (Rihour and Fives), the modern art museum of Lille Métropole, Euralliance, the Hôtel du Département du Nord… In 1993, he devoted himself mainly to painting and produced numerous exhibitions for the Tapestry museums of Tournai, Boulogne-sur-Mer, the abbey of Saint-Riquier, as well as for the Matisse museums in Le Cateau, La Piscine in Roubaix, MAMAC in Nice, and the Museum of drawing and original prints in Gravelines. The Bellint and La Réserve galleries in Paris, Storme and Dorval in Lille, and Lagier in Isle-sur-Sorgue regularly exhibit his works.
In 2013 and 2014, a new retrospective of his works, tapestries and paintings, was dedicated to him respectively at the Museum of Fine Arts in Arras and at the Cité Nature in Arras, then in 2019 at the Prieuré d’Airaines.
On October 4, 2019, the city of Loos (European metropolis of Lille) inaugurated the Espace Michel Degand, an exhibition space which pays tribute to the Loos artist. An “exhibition venue that highlights the diversity of visual arts…”
Poets and writers, Emmanuel Looten, Jean Guichard-Meili, Pierre Dhainaut, Alain Réveillon, Gérard Durozoi, Olivier Clynckemaillie, Bruno Vouters and Jean-Pierre Nicol share with him the creation of artists’ books. In 2013, the writer and poet Pierre Henry wrote a biography of the artist Michel Degand or the art of the poetic.
He lives and works in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, but also in his workshop in Roubaix. Michel Degand is present in many collections both in France and abroad.
Main works:
Woven works:
Mirror of Earth-Miroir de Terre (2007), general council of the North (Lille)
Vers un autre demain-Towards another tomorrow (2004), Euralliance (Lille). Tapestry exhibited in Aubusson for 3 months for the inauguration of the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie (July 10, 2016).
Envers l’Avenir-Toward the future (1998), Tournai tapestry museum
Les Visages Oubliés-The Forgotten Faces (1983-1985), Aubusson tapestries
Ni Jour ni Nuit- Neither day nor night (1982), Lille Métropole Museum of Modern Art
Le Chant vers l’Impossible- The song towards the impossible (1971-1974), Aubusson tapestries created on the theme of the Flemish poet Emmanuel Looten
En cet Espace inexploré du rêve- In this unexplored space of dreams (1970), Oaks Hotel (Houston)
D’Eroiles dans les Soirs Tremblants- Of stars in trembling evenings (1967), Lille courthouse
Paintings :
Ne pas aller au-delà- Don’t Go Behond (2011), Carrière Wellington, Arras
Apprends-moi à passer- Teach me to Pass (2011), Carrière Wellington, Arras
Le Zéro à l’infini… ou mille et un chuchotements – Zero to infinity… or a thousand and one whispers (2009), Palais Rameau, Lille
Palimpseste – Palimpsest (2003), mairie de Lille
La Vieille Fille- The Old Girl (1977), musée d’art et d’industrie de Roubaix, La Piscine
Numerous series : Les Traverses- Sleepers (2002-2008), L’Œuvre au noir – The black work (1995-1997), Les Têtes réfléchissantes – Reflective heads (1992-1995), L’Image et l’Écriture- Image and writing (1993-2000), Océan de pourpre- Ocean of purple (2003), Tendres ironies -tender Ironies (2004-2005)
Sculptures :
Terre de ciel- Earth of Sky (2010), Parc du bois Leurent à Roncq
La Famille- Family (2005), Lille Europe
Bois peint- Painted wood (1995), Maison du patrimoine de Gravelines
Lille Fives Metro Station (1983), 80 sqm fresco of enameled lava (Lille)
Lille Rihour Metro Station (1983), 100 sqm fresco, inox steel and sleepers (Lille)
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Our work Traverse 44.046 by Michel Degand was carefully selected for its aesthetic qualities, its originality and its fair price. Our choice favors above all the acuity of creativity, of which the signature of Michel Degand is a guarantee, a guarantee of an enhancement of your new acquisition in your interior and of an ability to dialogue with your furniture, to agree and to mix to create a unique decoration.
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Additional information
| Weight | 3 kg |
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| Dimensions | 70 × 4 × 100 cm |
