Georges Mathieu
Georges Mathieu 喬治・馬修 | L’espace éclaté 能量迸發
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April 6, 06:45 AM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 2,000,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
Georges Mathieu
1921 - 2012
L’espace éclaté
signed Mathieu (lower right) and titled L'espace eclate (on the stretcher)
acrylic on canvas
89 by 116 cm.
35 by 45 ⅝ in.
Executed in 1990
Galerie de Bellecour label affixed to the stretcher on the reverse
This work is accompanied by a photo-certificate signed by the artist on May 1990 and a certificate of authenticity issued by the Comité Georges Mathieu, Paris (No. GM90043)
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喬治・馬修
1921 - 2012
能量迸發
款識
Mathieu (右下)
L'espace eclate (畫框)
壓克力彩畫布
89 x 116 cm.
35 x 45 ⅝ in.
一九九〇年作
註：畫背貼有白萊果畫廊標籤
附：藝術家一九九〇年五月親自開立之圖片保證書及喬治・馬修委員會開立之作品保證書（編號GM90043）
Galerie de Bellecour, Lyon
Private Collection, France
Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, 21 February 2004, Lot 352
Centro Arti Visive, Cremona
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, Milan, 13 July 2021, Lot 36（consigned by the above)
Private Asian Collection (acquired from the above sale)
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里昂，白萊果畫廊
法國私人收藏
巴黎，Cornette de Saint-Cyr，2004年2月21日，拍品編號352
克雷莫納，視覺藝術中心
私人收藏（購自上述來源）
蘇富比，米蘭，2021年7月13日，拍品編號36（委托自上述來源）
亞洲私人收藏（購自上述來源）
Lyon, Galerie de Bellecour, Georges Mathieu Huiles sur Toiles, 1989-1990
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里昂，白萊果畫廊〈喬治・馬修油畫展〉一九八九年至一九九〇年
A man with a deep artistic feeling and with a high theoretical thought, Mathieu is an artist who, with his art, not only was able to conquer in the decades following the Second World War the interest of major international collectors and museums - from Peggy Guggenhiem Collection in Venice to the MoMA in New York, from the Art Institute of Chicago to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His influence continues to resonate today, as evidenced by the important retrospective that is currently hosted at the K11 Musea in Hong Kong.
From the pioneering experiments in Paris in the 1940s, to the performance art that projected him onto the international scene in the 1950s, up to the 1960s and 1970s, when his works increasingly spread in the mainstream circuits, Mathieu has constantly opened new paths, experimenting persistently over the decades to expand the possibilities of abstraction.
The 1980s marked a "cosmic change", followed by a "barbaric period" starting from 1989 onwards. L’Espace eclate from 1990 fully belongs to this period, in which, in the words of Edouard Lombard, one can find "more violent spurts, multiple flows and explosions, unprecedented choices of color, often highly contrasting, sometimes cavernous backgrounds that can then achieve a three-dimensional quality in the composition."
In the present work, the salient features of lyrical abstraction clearly emerge. Observing the painting, in fact, it is possible to perceive the speed of its realization, which appears as a “pictorial flight” that escapes the chains of consciousness.
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