Georges Mathieu — le site officiel
The exhibition “Celebrating abstraction, painters from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in the collections of the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art” is a rare opportunity to see in Paris eight historical paintings on canvas by Georges Mathieu dating from 1945 to 1958. Until November 26, 2023, at the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen, 27 quai de Conti, at […]
An exhibition dedicated to Georges Mathieu’s works on paper was organized at Perrotin, 2bis avenue Matignon in Paris, from Friday September 8 to Saturday September 30. Mathieu’s works on paper are a distinct artistic statement whose precision, accuracy, and subtlety of gesture – both lively and intuitive – can rival the power of his large-scale […]
For the 50th anniversary of the Usine Étoile—literally “star factory”—a unique star-shaped factory and work of art designed by Georges Mathieu and located in Fontenay-Le-Comte, France, the Vendée region is organizing a major exhibition at the Historial de la Vendée, from November 18, 2022 to May 21, 2023. The exhibition will feature three sections with […]
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Applicat-Prazan gallery, and for his first participation in Paris+ par Art Basel, Franck Prazan proposes a new solo exhibition by Georges Mathieu, eight years after the one that made a big impact at FIAC 2014. Our commitment combines with passion when it comes to Georges Mathieu, whom I […]
Nahmad Contemporary and Perrotin are offering, from November 21st to December 21st, 2019, an exhibition by the late French artist Georges Mathieu (1921–2012), the founder of Lyrical Abstraction and a pioneer of performance art who foregrounded the techniques of tubism and dripping. This exhibition explores a specific period of Mathieu’s rich and varied work. The […]
Nahmad Contemporary and Perrotin are delighted to present a booth dedicated to lyrical abstraction’s founder Georges Mathieu. Considered one of the most influential postwar French artists, this presentation will bring together a selection of rare works from the ’60s/’70s and marks the return of the artist in the United Kingdom after a long time. Amongst […]
“Artistic License. Six takes on the Guggenheim Collection.” is an exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum in New York from May 24, 2019, through January 12, 2020, curated by six artists. Richard Prince offers a section entitled “Four Paintings Looking Right,” in which he has included two major works by Georges Mathieu from the museum’s […]
Georges Mathieu makes big news in New York where four monumental paintings of 6 metres, painted in 1978 for his retrospective at the Grand Palais, are exhibited starting today at Nahmad Contemporary. “Undervalued for some time, the French star of the 1950-1970s is about to take his revenge. Featuring four major canvases from the artist’s best […]
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 […]
