Born in 1951
American nationality
Painter and film director
Number of works in the collection : 8

IN THE EYES OF YVON LAMBERT

“From Schnabel, I also have a very large painting and a series of drawings that he made in the gallery during his stays in Paris. One evokes the passage of the writer Miller when he lived before the war at the top of the Place de Clichy, another ironises the famous cabaret the Lido, and a more recent one, on cardboard, was made from rags soaked in watercolour and slammed on the support. A sort of duck emerges from these hazardous gestures that remind us of a kind of automatic writing. Yvon in Paris is obviously not a portrait – I have never posed in my life! – but a work very quickly realized, with a nervousness that could be Twombly’s instinctive brio. But here Schnabel has above all known how to represent me, or at least how to give a hidden image of me, it is through the choice of the frame. He knew very well my love for the Flea Market in Saint Ouen where I regularly go hunting on Sunday mornings. In fact, I take all my artists there, usually the day after the openings where we meet in the small popular bistrots! Also, Julian was already looking at that time for monumental frames for his own works, with very well worked antique chopsticks, and it was of course there that I introduced him to the best antique dealers and dealers of rare frames. During one of these morning walks, we found this 17th century antique frame, a little extravagant but very beautiful. Back at the gallery, he adjusted the drawing on the frame that perfectly matched its dimensions, and offered me this painting. In my memory, it is also associated with that period when the art market was in full swing, and Julian’s work met with impressive success with critics, curators and collectors alike.”

QUOTE FROM THE ARTIST

“For me, art is not self-expression. Painting one’s innards has never been an interesting idea and has never produced a valid painting. Feeling cannot be separated from the mind. In this sense, neo-expressionism does not exist and has never existed. …and if expressing yourself makes you an expressionist, then all artists are expressionists.”

ADDITIONNAL RESOURCES TO WATCH AND TO READ

Youtube, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco – Julian Schnabel \ On Inspiration (2018)
Youtube, Out of Sync – Art in Focus – Julian Schnabel I only want to talk about paintings (2020)
The Talks – Julian Schnabel : “I never thought of art as a career” (2011)
Interview Magazine – New Again : Julian Schnabel (2016)
GQ Magazine – A year in the life of Julian Schnabel (2018)