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Jacqueline Debutler’s geometric abstractions combine multiple styles of printmaking to achieve geometric forms in saturated color along with textural patterns. She employs color aquatint, a technique through which artists elicit rich, painterly effects by applying powdered resin to the surface of a metal plate, then allowing acid to eat away at this area to create pockets that will hold ink during the printing process. She also utilizes engraving, a process in which images are manually carved into a metal plate using a sharp tool called a burin before printing. Born in Compiègne, France, Debutler studied at the School of Fine Arts of Amiens, France. In 1957, she married surgeon Patrick de Butler d'Ormond, whose name inspired her pseudonym. She moved to Paris in 1967 and enrolled at the Johnny Friedlaender workshop to study engraving. Alongside her Parisian activity in her studio in the Rue Croulebarbe, she worked and exhibited in the south of France, particularly in La Garde-Freinet.
DimensionsSheet: 30 x 22 1/4 in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm)
Accession Number 2026.26
Classificationsprint
SignedDebutler (l,r graphite)
Inscriptions61/120 (l,c graphite)
O O.P. (l,l verso, graphite)
Debutler (l,l verso, graphite)
/ Interim (l,c verso, graphite)
$100. (l,r verso, graphite)
20.00 (l,r verso, graphite)
0678 (l,r verso, graphite)
Edition61/120
Paper/SupportArches paper
ProvenanceGraham Cook and Catherine Bennett; Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections [gift of the previous, 2026]
