LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

92.72 in. (235.50 cm.) (height) by 81.50 in. (207.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 1962; signed and titled on the reverse

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Kléber, . Simon Hantaï, Peintures Mariales , May - June 1962. Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, . Simon Hantaï: Werke von 1960 bis 1995 , May - August 1999, p. 33, illustrated in color (in installation). Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, . Simon Hantaï , May - September 2013, p. 117, no. 69, illustrated in color . New York, Mnuchin Gallery,. Simon Hantaï, Pliage: The First Decade , April - June 2015, p. 36, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 37, pl. 3, illustrated in color. Paris, Guttklein Fine Art, . Simon Hantaï: Oeuvres Majeures 1958-1981 , February - April 2016

Literature:

Francoise Chauvin, `Claude Aguttes, entre Neuilly et Lyon,' . Connaissance des Arts , January 2009, p. 111, illustrated in color. Kalman Maklary,. Simon Hantaï, Volume II, 1960-2001, Budapest, 2013, p. 106, illustrated in color. Paul Rodgers, . The Modern Aesthetic , New York, 2017, p. 132, fig. 61, illustrated in color and p. 143, fig. 67, illustrated in color (detail

Provenance:

Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris. Claude Aguttes, Paris, June 25, 2008, Lot 161. Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris. Guttklein Fine Art, Paris. Acquired by the present owner from the above