Pierre Boulez, art as a musical score at auction

2023-06-04T14:53:48.761Z

Highlights: Artcurial is putting up for sale on June 7, in Paris, the estate of the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez. About fifty works testify to his passion for twentieth-century artists and the parallel he was able to establish between painting and music. In his book The Fertile Country, the famous conductor and composer gives us the key by establishing similarities between graphic structure and scores, especially with Paul Klee, who had first studied music before becoming a painter. Boulez drew new writing processes in music.

Artcurial is putting up for sale on June 7, in Paris, the estate of the composer and conductor. About fifty works testifying to his passion for twentieth-century artists and the parallel he was able to establish between painting and music.

Can we draw a parallel between musical scores and the works of twentieth-century artists that Pierre Boulez collected, such as Klee, Mondrian or Kandinsky? Undoubtedly, the lyrical line has been his common thread. He has always created links between painters and composers: Paul Cézanne and Claude Debussy or Piet Mondrian and Anton Webern. In his book The Fertile Country, the famous conductor and composer gives us the key by establishing similarities between graphic structure and scores, especially with Paul Klee, who had first studied music before becoming a painter. Reflections of this artist for the design of his paintings Boulez drew new writing processes in music.

In 1947, Pierre Boulez discovered the German Paul Klee during the first Avignon Festival. The paintings hanging in Christian Zervos' exhibition are a shock. It is not so much the musical correspondences that strike him as the problems posed ...

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Source: lefigaro

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