Oil on canvas framed. Featuring green and brown tone abstract theme artwork. Singed and attr. Simon Hantai (French 1922-2008). Signature on lower right corner. 15.7 x 19.7 in. (40 x 50 cm). Known for his folded canvas paintings, Simon Hantaï is an advocate for the consideration of canvas as a material unto itself. Briefly associated with André Breton’s circle of Surrealists in the early 1950s, Hantaï broke from the group and from figuration in 1955 to pursue gestural abstractions. His key breakthrough came in 1960 with his pliage paintings, which both drew on automatism and presented the canvas as a material rather than a flat plane.

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