Abstract Oil On Canvas - Franck Duminil (1933-2014)

Abstract oil on canvas signed lower right and on the back. Franck Duminil is a painter of lyrical abstraction born in Paris in 1933 and died in Paris in 2014. After a Parisian childhood interspersed with family travels (the Pyrenees, the city of Pau in particular, but also the beach of Cayeux-sur-Mer in the Somme), Franck Duminil entered the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts where he studied architecture in the Ferré studio before attending Jean Prouvé's classes at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers in Paris. In 1959, he left for twenty-eight months of military service, in Germany and then in Algeria. From 1962 to 1967, he worked as a draftsman in various architectural firms in Paris (Louis Arretche, Max Tournier), painting and participating in various group exhibitions simultaneously. Having a relationship with Georges Mathieu around 1980, his improvised geometry, where the impression of incisive coldness is supported by the dominance of blacks and grays, led to his very personal style being described (by Maurice J. Estrade) as "metallic". Gérald Schurr, Le dictionnaire Bénézit and Jean-Pierre Delarge use the word "aluchromie" to evoke his Duminil paintings on aluminum using an electrochemical process before 1980, the date at which he returned to oil painting with "ornamental abstractions that evoke vast nebulae". Franck Duminil settled permanently in the Montmartre district in 1983.