“By revealing the icons of our time, celebrities, public figures, in an intimate sensuality, Yves’s work refers to a fascination, a fantasy even, of a vision of beauty. The still lifes of Curtis respond with softness and melancholy to this fascination, and freeze with delicacy this desire for eternity that humans covet. Almost in abstraction. Likewise with Maillol, his work, silent, based on full forms, elaborated from the study of the female nude and simplified to the point of purity, represents a true artistic revolution, anticipating abstraction.”
Léo Fourdrinier