A coeval of
the Abstract Expressionists, Mathieu (1921–2012) isn’t well known on these
shores, but he’s considered one of France’s most important abstract
artists—and, indeed,was much admired by American art critic Clement Greenberg.
Unlike Jackson Pollock et al., Mathieu didn't traffic in storm und drang,
taking instead a lyrical approach to gestural painting that resembled
calligraphy more than it did the dripping and slashing of his AbEx
contemporaries. (It is remarkable how his work at times anticipates graffiti
art.) He liked to work big, and these four compositions from 1978—each
measuring approximately eight by 19 feet—are among his biggest, and were
created specifically for the artist’s retrospective at the Grand Palais in
Paris that same year.
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