Walter Leblanc

Galerie Denise René, Paris

MDZ Galerie, Knokke (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Nicole Leblanc & Danielle Everarts de Velp-Seynaeve, Walter Leblanc: Catalogue Raisonné, Aalst 1997, p. 306, no. 871 bis, illustrated

“My monochrome paintings originate from a meditation on a single idea. Thus, they are not a game of chance, but an exteriorisation of an inner reality. The production unfolds in three stages:

the imaginary projection of the painting-soul, achromic, on a screen: the blank canvas;

the visualisation of the imaginary achromic projection, in: maximum light: white minimum light: black or colour tones: colours;

the enhancement of the light, to reach the perfect crystallisation of the painting.

It is this third stage, which, in a pictorial realisation, implies that a monochrome painting is a multicoloured painting whose colours are brought together in one dominant colour.“ 

(Walter Leblanc on the occasion of the exhibition Monochrome Malerei at the Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 2010)