Georges Mathieu — le site officiel
In its publication from September 24, Le Figaro, one of France’s newspapers of record, dedicated a full page to this article: “The Georges Mathieu renaissance has begun”. Renowned the world over from the 1950s to the 1970s, this giant of lyrical abstraction then endured a long purgatory until his death. The artist is finally getting […]
Galerie Templon offers for the first time a solo exhibition of Georges Mathieu. The exhibition features around thirty paintings created between 1960 and 1979, demonstrating the significance and inventiveness of a body of work that left a lasting impression on French art and imagination. In 1971, Pierre Dehaye said: “In the twenty years since lyrical abstraction […]
Jean Claude Gandur, the founder of the Addax & Oryx group, but also a major art collector and patron, received the title of Officer of the Legion of Honor on October 7, 2017, at the Beau-Rivage Hotel in Lausanne, bestowed upon him by his friend Francis Wahl. Through the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, he holds […]
The Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport includes a Museum Space where until September 10, 2018, 21 abstract works from the Pompidou Center collection are on display. Christian Briend (photo above), the curator of this exhibition and the Pompidou Center, displays here the two contrasting movements in the 1950s, geometric abstraction and lyric abstractions, particularly through the works of […]
John Ashbery, one of the most renowned American poets — winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award — died early Sunday (September 3rd, 2017) at the age of 90. Francophile and art critic for the Paris Herald Tribune, ARTnews, New York et Newsweek, he held Georges Mathieu’s work in high esteem: The […]
Micromégas (1973, 65 x 130 cm) is currently shown at the “Georges Pompidou & Art” exhibition at the Chambord castle (800,000 visitors per year) from June 18th to November 19th, 2017. This oil on canvas is part of the collection of Centre Pompidou, this year celebrating its 40 years. Georges Mathieu started in 1963 a regular correspondence […]
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Three paintings of Georges Mathieu are shown at the PAD Paris art and design fair that is open from the 23rd to the 26th of March: Le ciel fermé (Closed Sky, 1990) at Galerie Protée (Paris), is a shining example of the fiery and powerful gesture, and of the depth of field that are specific to the so-called barbaric […]
The Applicat-Prazan Gallery presents two works that were entrusted to it by the MoMA, the most well-known American modern art museum: an abstract painting by Jean Dubuffet, Topographie châtaine (1959) and a painting by Georges Mathieu, Théorème d’Alexandroff (1955). The Georges Mathieu Committee has written for the gallery’s catalogue a text on the artwork that puts it in the […]
The Dellupi Arte gallery is holding a solo exhibition of Georges Mathieu in Milan from October 20th to November 20th, featuring more than fifteen artworks. Some of these will be previewed at the ArtVerona modern and contemporary art fair in Verona from October 14th to 17th. Gallery director Luigi Dellupi explains the reasons for this exhibition […]
