From 14 March to 12 April 2025
Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles, 27 rue de Seine, Paris 6e
Opening on Thursday 13 March 2025, 5 to 9 pm
Two singular artists.
Ursula Schultze-Bluhm (1921-1999), C’est moi Ursula ! (It’s Me, Ursula!) Paintings, drawings, boxes
Discovered by Jean Dubuffet in 1954 and included in the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, this self-taught artist nonetheless defies classification. Her poetic, even Surrealist works belong to “the automatism of mediums”, according to André Breton in the review La Brèche in 1961. At the gallery you will find works lent to the Museum Ludwig in 2023 for her major retrospective in Cologne, “That’s Me So What”.
A small souvenir of the major Ursula retrospective at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in 2023, to which the gallery lent 5 works, with Andrew Russeth’s article in The New York Times of 16 May 2023, illustrated with Les deux gardiens, now at the gallery. Ursula took part in major exhibitions such as documenta in Kassel, and began making her assemblage-sculptures at the end of the 1950s.
“The image is lodged in my mind and waits to be released into the outside world, onto the canvas,” Ursula wrote.
Yolande Fièvre (1907-1983), automatic paintings, oniroscopes
Artists: Ursula Schultze-Bluhm, Yolande Fièvre
Works shown
- Ursula, Les deux gardiens, 1986, oil paint and varnish on wood, double-sided, 175 x 57 x 1.8 cm and 175 x 58 x 1.8 cm, catalogue raisonné no. 86/102 (reproduced in Ursula, catalogue raisonné, Hirmer, 2007, pp. 206 and 207, and in Ursula: That’s me. So what?, exhibition catalogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2023, pp. 118 and 119)
- Ursula, La femme de Potiphar, 1983, oil on canvas, 120 x 180 cm, catalogue raisonné no. 83/001 (reproduced in the catalogue raisonné, Hirmer, 2007, p. 84, and in the Museum Ludwig catalogue, Cologne, 2023, pp. 276 and 277)
- Ursula, Cauchemar, 1984, mixed media, oil and furs on canvas, 79 x 99 x 4 cm, catalogue raisonné no. 84/007 (reproduced), Cologne retrospective 2023, p. 345 (reproduced)
- Ursula, Bouquet fleurs, circa 1955, oil on panel, 75 x 52 cm, catalogue raisonné no. 50er/001
- Ursula, The fight outside of the fur-town, 1981, coloured pencil and fur collage on paper, 73 x 102 x 5 cm, catalogue raisonné no. 81/201 (reproduced in the catalogue raisonné, Hirmer, 2007, p. 381)
- Ursula, Le poète regarde la mer profonde, 1989, oil on canvas, 50 x 100 cm, catalogue raisonné no. 89/008 (reproduced in the catalogue raisonné, Hirmer, 2007, pp. 230 and 409, and in the Museum Ludwig catalogue, Cologne, 2023, p. 130)
- Yolande Fièvre, Var bizarre n° VIII, 1967, oniroscope, 12 x 17 cm, signed, dated and titled on the reverse
- Yolande Fièvre, Sans titre, circa 1950, automatic painting, 23 x 16 cm, signed