68 - André Lanskoy (1902–1976)

André Lanskoy (1902–1976) Are You Leaving Soon? 1965 Oil on canvas, signed lower left, titled and dated on the back 80 x 100 cm Condition Report: Framed This oil painting is a major example of the artist’s mature style; he was a central figure of the École de Paris and lyrical abstraction. Painted in the mid-1960s, the composition unfolds through a dynamic grid of interlocking blocks of color and dark structural lines, eliminating any reference to the figurative world. The work reflects Lanskoy’s fundamental exploration of the interaction between color and light, where soft, spring-like tones of pink, yellow, and mauve contrast with intense blues and flashes of black. Through its vibrant texture and innate sense of spatial rhythm, this painting conveys a poetic inner world and great freedom of painterly gesture—characteristics that place the artist alongside the great masters of the postwar European abstract avant-garde, such as Nicolas de Staël and Serge Poliakoff.