(1928-2016)
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Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Amiens, Jacqueline Debutler began her artistic career in the 1950s, signing her first works with the name Valérie Lacroix, in homage to La Croix-Saint-Ouen, near Compiègne, where her parents ran a sawmill. In 1957, she married surgeon Patrick de Butler d'Ormond, whose name she retained in the form of the pseudonym Debutler, which she adopted as her artist name.
In 1963, she received her first mention from La Palette Française, and in 1967 she moved to Paris, where she joined the studio of Johnny Friedlaender, an eminent engraver of the Paris School. Her artistic career reflects a constant search for rigour, chromatic harmony and formal balance.
She proved to be a demanding engraver and printer with great skill. When she began publishing her engravings, she paid scrupulous attention to the quality of the prints. The artist alternated between two approaches. Sometimes she would create a work in a single burst of inspiration, with a simple and direct gesture. At other times, she would begin by drawing slowly, with concentration. Then the work intensifies. She folds the paper, cuts out the image, prepares the copper plate. Her contact with the material becomes more engaged, sometimes physical. She returns to it several times, modifying it, exposing it to acid, adjusting the shapes. Engaged in a dialogue with the material, she continues until she feels she has achieved balance.
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