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764
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Modern and Contemporary Art French Modernism
Messagier, Jean…
See original version (German)
764
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Modern and Contemporary Art French Modernism
Messagier, Jean…
See original version (German)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
Modern and Contemporary Art
French Modernism
Messagier, Jean
Grands noeuds pour un pré. Colour etching with drypoint on Arches paper. 51.5 x 70.6 cm (63 x 90 cm). Signed and titled in pencil. - A magnificent print with flowing colour gradients and a full margin.
Not listed in Rivière. One of 90 copies. - With its swirling, sweeping lines and luminous, almost transparent fields of colour, this work illustrates Messagier’s affinity for lyrical abstraction, in which gesture and emotion play central roles. At the same time, the motif—inspired by landscape and weather phenomena—refers to his concept of ‘abstract landscapes’, through which he translates the perception of nature into a free, non-figurative vocabulary. Within the Second School of Paris and Art Informel, with which he is frequently associated, he thus asserts an autonomous position between abstraction and figuration. The print thus exemplifies his endeavour to develop a subjective, poetic mimesis of the world that dispenses with rigid concepts and relies entirely on atmosphere, movement and painterly freedom.
Colour etching with drypoint on Arches paper. Signed and titled in pencil. – Probably a trial proof, hence with occasional studio marks and a signature and title that have been partially overdrawn. With light brown stains. A splendid impression with flowing colour gradients and full margins. Not at Rivière. One of 90 copies. – With its swirling, dynamic lines and luminous, almost transparent fields of colour, this work illustrates Messagier’s affinity for lyrical abstraction, in which gesture and emotion play central roles. At the same time, the motif—inspired by landscapes and weather phenomena—refers to his concept of ‘abstract landscapes’, through which he translates the perception of nature into a free, non-figurative vocabulary. Within the Second School of Paris and Art Informel, with which he is frequently associated, he thus asserts an autonomous position between abstraction and figuration. The print thus exemplifies his endeavour to develop a subjective, poetic mimesis of the world that dispenses with rigid concepts and relies entirely on atmosphere, movement and painterly freedom.
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