PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Asia

ILLUSTRATED:
Jean-Denis Bredin, Weisbuch , Editions Galerie
Taménaga, France, 1985, color illustrated, unpaginated
Jean-Marie Tasset and Jean-Denis Bredin, Weisbuch - peintures, pastels, dessins, Librairie Séguier, Paris, 1989, color illustrated, p. 211

Claude Weisbuch lived to the age of eighty-seven, and was a pupil at L'École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, France. Weisbuch was an avid painter, engraver and an exceptional lithographer. Weisbuch was mostly known for his characteristic works of musicians, horses and characters, where he would capture the dynamics of the characters with literary expressions. Despite of the limited use of basis colors of dark brownish red, he always managed to deliver the tensions and live actions with fluid strokes. Since 1951, Weisbuch began to receive the attention of the art critics and works of his are in the appearance of several salons, in 1961, he was awarded with the annual prize, and since then, his works are widely seen overseas, including Europe, United States and Japan.

When looking at the works of Weisbuch, most people cannot help but to notice the passionate expressions he used with as little colors. As seen in the work of “Discours de l'inutile”, the background are painted in blurry touches, and divided into two sectors, yet, the foreground clearly captured the excited expressions of the debater, at the same time giving out a powerful gesture suggesting a confident in one self. As an important contemporary artist of France, Weisbuch’s works in widely collected by major institutions and museums of the world, including New York Modern Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Academie Royale in Belgium and more.