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Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst and Labyrinth Press, Oslo, [No date: circa 1998]. Hardcover, 111 pp.; 29 cm; text in Norwegian with parallel English translation; illustrated with full-page color plates and black-and-white photographs. Publikasjon nr. 19. Foreword by Hans-Jakob Brun; English translation by Ruth Waaler; design by ivind Pedersen; printed by Tangen Grafiske Senter, Drammen.
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue cloth boards, title blind-stamped on front, spine lettered in silver. Faint dampstain at foot of front board, light bumping to corners and edges. Binding tight. Light spotting to top edge of text block. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (front, detail of Laerdal Bleu Fonce, 1979; rear, black-and-white photograph of Debre at work outdoors beside a stave church) has a few small nicks and light creasing along edges, with light scuffing to rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Catalogue of the 1998 exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, of paintings by Olivier Debre (1920-1999), the French painter of the Ecole de Paris lyrical abstraction, made during his many visits to Norway from 1966, when he held his first exhibition at Galleri Haaken, Oslo. The dealer Haaken Christensen introduced him to the fjords and mountains of western Norway. Art historian Magne Malmanger's essay, "Olivier Debre: Between Art and Nature," traces the move from the Signe Personnage paintings of the 1940s and 1950s to the landscape abstractions of Laerdal, Sunndalsfjorden, Skjatvet and Rosendal, reproduced in plates from 1957 to 1996. The exhibition drew on loans from The Phillips Collection, Washington, and Norwegian collectors. Includes a biography, a list of solo and group exhibitions, and a bibliography.