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The Museum of Fine Arts's cabinet exhibition pays tribute to the painter Simon Hantaï, born in Hungary a hundred years ago and attaining world fame while in France. The sixty or so displayed works include two dozen hitherto unknown modernist masterpieces by the artist, who passed away in Paris in 2008, but also those eight paintings that his family gifted to the museum in 2016 in accordance with h...

To celebrate the centenary of Simon Hantaï's birth (1922-2008), Fondation Louis Vuitton is organising an unprecedented retrospective exhibition curated by Anne Baldassari. It includes more than 130 of Simon Hantaï's works, many of which have never before been shown, and the majority of which are large format works from 1957 to 2000. The starting point for the didactic circuit is the painting Écrit...

Gagosian, Paris, is pleased to present a selection of paintings by Simon Hantaï (1922-2008). In anticipation of his forthcoming retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton, curated by Anne Baldassari and opening on May 18, 2022, these works will be installed on the ground floor of the gallery at 4 rue de Ponthieu. The grouping, which is dominated by bold, vibrant colors evocative of spring blossoms, ...

Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of eighteen paintings by Simon Hantaï (1922-2008). Les blancs de la couleur, la couleur du blanc, curated by Anne Baldassari, is Gagosian's second solo exhibition of Hantaï's work since the gallery announced its representation of the artist's estate in 2019, and occurs in the centenary year of his birth. Many of the works in the exhibition, which occupi...

This sensory, poetic exhibition offers a fresh perspective on masterpieces of the History of art. Almost 75 years after the legendary exhibition "Black is a Colour", it provides an engrossing exploration of this fascinating colour, which has been endowed with a multitude of symbolic meanings in Western art, from antiquity to the present day. A paradoxical colour, is black the absence of light, emp...

EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 27, 2020. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 by appointment T +33 1 75 00 05 92 or paris@gagosian.com Gagosian is pleased to announce the representation of the Estate of Simon Hantaï (1922-2008). To inaugurate Hantaï's representation, LES NOIRS DU BLANC, LES BLANCS DU NOIR, an exhibition of black-and-white paintings and prints dating between 1969 and 1997, will be presented at Gago...

La salle Simon Hantaï est la première proposition issue du partenariat entre la Réunion des Musées Métropolitains et la Fondation Gandur pour l?Art. Peintes entre 1951 et 1962, les toiles rassemblées permettent de mettre en lumière l?une des plus singulières et foisonnantes aventures picturales de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Simon Hantaï quitte sa Hongrie natale avec sa femme Zsuzsa en 1948 p...

Gagosian is pleased to present Blanc sur Blanc, a group exhibition. A century ago, Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist paintings heralded a revolutionary new interpretation of white, in which total abstraction suggests the utopian and the infinite. Since then, artists have deployed the achromatism of whiteness in an endless range of formal and symbolic ways, evoking states of emptiness and effacement, ...

A gauche sur la photo et face à 'Alfa Romeo Giuletta', 1974 de César : 'Blancs', 1973 de Simon Hantaï (Acrylique sur toile, 222x214cm, Marseille, [mac] musée d'Art contemporain). ...

GIGANTISME - ART & INDUSTRIE is jointly organized by the FRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France and the LAAC of Dunkirk, in collaboration with the association L'Art Contemporain and the Littoral Hauts-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry....

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, new exhibition will combine two strategic directions that the Museum has given to its exhibition activities in recent years. Those directions include showcasing private collections and developing a new exhibition concept. The show "East West Jazz" displays over 30 unique robes and textiles from Alexander Klyachin's collection and over two dozens of post-war a...

Curated by Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim. This exhibition is a joint collaboration with Lionel Bovier and the MAMCO in Geneva, where it was presented from Oct. 10, 2018 to Feb. 03, 2019. Pattern, Crime & Decoration features the groundbreaking, artist-led American art movement Pattern & Decoration, which started in the mid-1970s and lasted until the mid-1980s. Often viewed as the last organize...

The mature work of Antoni Tàpies, Simon Hantaï and Pierre Soulages finds each artist addressing their materials with determined irreverence. Each in his own way has pushed painting to its sculptural limits: Tàpies with the introduction of sand, cement, marble dust and objects into his painted surfaces; Hantaï in laboriously bundling and folding canvases before approaching them with a brush; Soulag...

Le CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux présente dans ses galeries du second étage un important accrochage de sa Collection. Cette exposition ramène dans le bâtiment patrimonial du musée plusieurs des oeuvres qui ont marqué son histoire. Les visiteurs pourront découvrir une importante sélection d'oeuvres de plus de quarante artistes, réalisées entre les années 1960 et nos jours. ---- Avec des...

Curatorship: Serge Guilbaut // This show explores the contribution of foreign artists who, after the Second World War, were working in Paris, a city which still preserved a certain aura surrounding its mythical modern embodiment as a ?City of Light? in the 19thcentury. Paris at that time, rebuilding politically, socially and economically after the war, was trying to revamp the old image of the ?Sc...

The Espace Musées museum area at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport will be playing host to the Pompidou Centre until 10 September 2018. The "L'Art abstrait des années 1950" (Abstract Art in the 1950s) exhibition, put together by the Paris Museum of Modern Art, shows a selection of 20 emblematic works taken from the post-1945 abstract movement in Paris. The Espace Musées was inaugurated five years ag...

Fondée sur la transformation radicale du regard scientifique sur le monde sous-marin que porte une discipline nouvelle ? l?océanographie ?, l?exposition Né(e)s de l?écume et des rêves aborde les imaginaires liés à la mer, à l?océan et aux abysses du milieu du XIXe siècle à nos jours. 1859-1869 est une décennie cruciale. En 1959, Darwin publie son ouvrage sur la théorie  de l?évolution, un câble té...

Timothy Taylor is honoured to present Freeform, an exhibition of works by Jean Dubuffet, Simon Hantaï and Charlotte Perriand. Presented is a meeting of art and design through a dialogue of formal structure and organic forms, as defined by three French pioneers working across mediums of painting, sculpture and furniture....

Par l'exposition Simon Hantaï, Paris, 1948 - 1955, la galerie Jean Fournier a choisi de mettre en lumière une période relativement confidentielle de l'oeuvre de Simon Hantaï. De la fin des années 1940 au milieu des années 1950, Simon Hantaï, se cherche, expérimente et recourt au collage, au découpage, au grattage, à la décalcomanie, à l'empreinte, au frottage, aux coulures, au froissage et à ses p...

De 1943 à 1948, installé à la villa le Rêve, il tombe sous le charme de la cité. Il ne cessera de créer, en quête d'un art « d'équilibre et de pureté ». A Vence, il puise une nouvelle source d'inspiration pour mener à bien la conception d'une oeuvre d'art total, la chapelle des dominicaines du Rosaire, qu'il considérera comme son chef d'oeuvre. La relation privilégiée tissée entre Matisse et la ci...

Pour la saison estivale 2017, le département de Dordogne reconduit son partenariat avec la Fondation Maeght, fort du succès rencontré l'an passé, et présente l'exposition « Vivantes natures » du 22 mai au 5 novembre au Château de Biron, avec des oeuvres issues des collections de la Fondation Maeght. Pour cette édition, Olivier Kaeppelin, directeur de la Fondation Maeght, a imaginé un parcours de 9...

Cet été, le musée s'attache à mettre en avant une personnalité emblématique, poète et homme engagé, fondateur du surréalisme et membre de la Compagnie de l'Art brut : André Breton. Lors de la vente de sa collection en 2003, le LaM s'est porté acquéreur de plusieurs objets et documents d'archives, tandis que le Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, accueillait   l'ensemble des objets expos...

« Hartung et les peintres lyriques » / « Hartung and the lyrical painters »From December 11, 2016 to April 17, 2017Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture, Landerneau (France) In partnership with the Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture of Landerneau (Finistère, France), the Hartung-Bergman Foundation is organizing the exhibition ?Hartung and the Lyrical Painters?, curated by Xav...

'On View: Simon Hantaï, Tabula, 1980' is currently being presented in the New York space and can be seen through 21 January 2017....

Commissariat : Christian Briend, conservateur au musée national d'art moderne, assisté de Nathalie Ernoult, attachée de conservation A l'occasion des célébrations de son 40e anniversaire, le Centre Pompidou présente à la Fondation Clément une exposition consacrée à la peinture abstraite non-géométrique, telle qu'elle s'est développée à Paris après la Seconde guerre mondiale. Nommée tour à tour, dè...

In January 2016 Timothy Taylor presented Simon Hantaï's first solo exhibition in London, showcasing eleven works which had not been viewed for over thirty years. Hantaï's unique pliage technique can be seen again now in the New York gallery. The 1976 documentary "Les Silences Rétiniens" (Retinal Silences) by Jean-Michel Meurice accompanies the work and will be screened throughout the gallery's ope...

Parallel met de tentoonstelling Daniel Buren. Une Fresque in Bozar (19.02 - 22.05.2016) van de in Parijs wonende Franse kunstenaar Daniel Buren (1938) ? één van de invloedrijkste kunstenaars sedert de jaren zestig ? presenteert Museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent een drieluik in nauw overleg met de kunstenaar waarin tal van facetten van zijn zeer ruime oeuvre zullen worden belicht op basis van zijn werel...

Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Simon Hantaï: Blancs, an exhibition highlighting the artist's groundbreaking series of multi-colored paintings from 1973-1974, on view at 293 Tenth Ave. from October 22 - December 5, 2015. Blancs is the first Hantaï exhibition in New York to focus on the series since the works were debuted at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in Hantaï: Paintings, Watercolors: 1...

La galerie Jean Fournier est heureuse de présenter Regard sur quelques Tabulas, une exposition consacrée à la série des Tabulasde Simon Hantaï, conçue sous la forme d'une sélection d'oeuvres majeures parmi lesquelles deux oeuvres exceptionnelles, monumentales et uniquement montrées lors de la rétrospective organisée au musée Ludwig à Budapest en 2014. Dans le catalogue de l'exposition rétrospectiv...

We are delighted to be presenting an exhibition of MEUNS by Simon Hantaï, a vitally important series in his career and the history of art of his time, which makes him the direct heir of Henri Matisse after competing with the greatest painters of American abstraction such as Jackson Pollock. These paintings, the Meuns, all made between 1967 and 1968 after a year of reflection or absence, as it were...

Mnuchin Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of paintings by Simon Hantaï (1922 ? 2008). Simon Hantaï | Pliage: The First Decade will present a focused look at the 1960s, his first mature decade.  It was during this period that the Hungarian-born, Paris-based artist created his groundbreaking pliage, or ?folding? method.  Tracing pliage's development through Hantaï's five early series? the M...

The Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art will present the first major exhibition of Simon Hantai in Hungary. The large-scale retrospective surveys the key aspects and periods within the oeuvre of the internationally renowned artist of Hungarian origin, from his early paintings executed in Hungary, through to his final works. In 2013 the Centre Pompidou showcased a highly successful exhibitio...

Du 12 février au 11 mai 2014 (vernissage 11 février 18h30-20h30), l'Académie de France à Rome ? Villa Médicis présente, pour la première fois en Italie, une exposition consacrée à l'un des plus grands artistes de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, le peintre Simon Hantaï. Programmée six ans après le mort de l'artiste, cette exposition, dont le commissariat est assuré par Éric de Chassey, est conçue ...

For the first time, the Centre Pompidou brings together the work of one of the greatest painters of the second half of the 20th century, a master of abstraction: Simon Hantaï. Five years after the death of the artist, the Centre Pompidou presents a unique exhibition of Hantaï's work ? the first in more than thirty-five years. Featuring more than 130 paintings produced from 1949 to the 1990s, this ...

Simon Hantai 8 May ? 22 June, 2013 515 West 27th, New York Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 6 - 8pm Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present a selection of never before seen works by Simon Hantaï, organized in collaboration with the Estate of Simon Hantaï, 8 May - 22 June, 2013 at 515 West 27th Street, New York, providing a rare opportunity to experience the work of this significant pos...

"Warnock's monograph makes a signature contribution to the study of Hantaï's body of work and to the wider history of modernism. She explicates the fundamental theoretical and practical concerns of an understudied artist whose work, while important, is not well known to a broad audience. Without a doubt, her scholarship provides the most sophisticated art-historical analysis of Hantaï's thought an...

"Meun" (1968) by Simon Hantaï is now on display in the post-war galleries of the NGA (on this photo near paintings by Ellsworth Kelly and Jasper Johns)...

Ce qui est arrivé par la peinture - Écrits et entretiens 1953-2006 De Simon Hantaï (1922-2008), on ne retient habituellement que les peintures éclatantes nées à partir de 1960 du « pliage comme méthode » et son attitude, si hors du commun aujourd'hui, de repli silencieux à l'égard du monde de l'art et de son marché. Cela revient à occulter un peu vite que son oeuvre s'élabore à Paris dès 1948 et ...