Simon Hantaï.
Pompidou Center| N° d'inventaire | 17031 |
| Format | 24.2 x 28.7 |
| Détails | 319 p., color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782844265975 |
With this catalog dedicated to Simon Hantaï, we finally have the opportunity to discover the entire oeuvre of one of the major artists of the second half of the 20th century. From the first paintings following Hantaï's arrival in Paris in 1948 to his foldings, this publication, which accompanies the first retrospective of his work since 1976, reveals sixty years of a painter's life in the complexity of his creation and its extreme diversity: from surrealist paintings to writing paintings, from the Mariales, the first series of works based on "folding as a method," to the Laissées, Hantaï's approach is analyzed at each stage of its development. Essays, testimonies from his close friends, as well as an in-depth chronology including many previously unpublished illustrations, enrich this first reference work on the artist.
With this catalog dedicated to Simon Hantaï, we finally have the opportunity to discover the entire oeuvre of one of the major artists of the second half of the 20th century. From the first paintings following Hantaï's arrival in Paris in 1948 to his foldings, this publication, which accompanies the first retrospective of his work since 1976, reveals sixty years of a painter's life in the complexity of his creation and its extreme diversity: from surrealist paintings to writing paintings, from the Mariales, the first series of works based on "folding as a method," to the Laissées, Hantaï's approach is analyzed at each stage of its development. Essays, testimonies from his close friends, as well as an in-depth chronology including many previously unpublished illustrations, enrich this first reference work on the artist.