Modern & Contemporary Discoveries including Works from the former Claude and Georges Pompidou Collection

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Works from the former Claude et Georges Pompidou Collection

Georges Mathieu

Fata viam inveniunt

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50,000 - 70,000 EUR

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Description

Georges Mathieu

1921 - 2012

Fata viam inveniunt

signed and dated 64 (lower right); countersigned, titled and dated 64 (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

81 x 146 cm; 31 ⅞ x 57 ½ in.

Executed in 1964.

This painting is referenced among the authentic artworks of the « Archives by Jean-Marie Cusinberche on Georges Mathieu». A letter from the Archives by Jean-Marie Cusinberche on Georges Mathieu will be provided to the buyer.

Claude and Georges Pompidou Collection, Paris (offered by the minister to Georges Pompidou for New Years 1964)

Alain Pompidou Collection, Paris (by descent from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Mathieu, 12 October– 15 December 1965, no. 25

François Mathey, Georges Mathieu, Milan - Paris 1969, no. 197, illustrated

Revue Lecture pour tous, no. 195, April 1970, p. 68

Exh; Cat., Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Georges Pompidou et la modernité, 24 February - 18 April 1999, p. 105, illustrated in colour

Caroline Pigozzi, Paris Match, "Alain Pompidou L'Enfance de L'Art", no. 3573, 9 - 15 November 2017, p. 10

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