Lot 788
  • 788

GEORGES MATHIEU | Hommage à Grigny

Estimate
1,400,000 - 2,800,000 HKD
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Description

  • Mathieu, Georges
  • Hommage à Grigny
  • signed in French and dated 70
  • oil on canvas
  • 194.8 by 97 cm; 76 ¾ by 38 ¼ in.

Provenance

Galerie Templon, Paris
Acquired directly from the above by the present private European collector

Exhibited

Paris, Musée Monétaire de Paris, Mathieu, March - April 1971, illustrated
Valréas, Château de Simiane, Trente ans d'abstraction lyrique, Hommage à Georges Mathieu, July - September 1977
Paris, Galerie Templon, Georges Mathieu: Les années 1960-1970, 8 September - 20 October 2018

Literature

Mathieu: 50 Ans de Création, Editions Hervas, Paris, 2003, p. 228
Victoire Disderot, ed., Georges Mathieu: Les années 1960-1970, Agence Communic'Art, Paris, 2018, p. 24, 52

Condition

The work is overall in very good and its original condition. Examination under UV light reveals no sign of restoration.
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Catalogue Note

“I love painting canvases that are disproportionately large, perhaps because the risk is also greater.” Excerpt from Hundred Discreet and Less Discreet Questions, Georges Mathieu, 1958



This work is included in the film, Georges Mathieu ou la fureur d'être, directed by Frédéric Rossif in 1971
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Le Comité Georges Mathieu