Loïs Frederick

(1930-2013)

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Biography

A magician of light, Loïs Frederick captured its brilliance with her incredible palette where the strength of its colour nuances insolently associated darks veering as far as fluorescent.

Like Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis and Paul Jenkins, she follows in the tradition of the great American painters working in Europe: intentionally a recluse in her studio, she built up an extraordinary body of work that remain secret until now.

Loïs Frederick’s large, vivid coloured -even fluorescent in the 1970’s- and luminous paintings are “an hymn to the light” and an echo to the wild landscapes of Nebraska, her native soil.

“Of her native Nebraska, she has retained images of immense plains leading to Rocky Mountains. Latitude: Rome. Altitude: 2700 feet. Sun, light, whatever the season. Climate of contrasts…” Michel Faucher

Heiress of Matisse and Rothko, her work is a marvellous mix between the Color Field movement and Abstract Expressionism, a bridge between the American and European artistic scenes.

Thanks to the Fulbright Award, she went to France in 1953 to study painting in Paris -the Fulbright Award was then renewed the following year.

Rare woman painter of Post-War art, she shared her life with the pioneer of European Abstract Expressionism, Gerard Schneider andrubbed shoulders with Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung and Zao Wou-Ki among others.