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Simon Hantaï
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
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Description
- Simon Hantaï
- Untitled
- signed and dated 58
- oil on canvas
- 148,5 x 105 cm; 58 7/16 x 41 5/16 in.
- Executed in 1958.
Provenance
Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired from the above by the current owner
Acquired from the above by the current owner
Literature
Kalman Maklary, Simon Hantaï, Volume I, 1949-1959, Budapest, 2012, p. 244, illustrated in colour
Condition
The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration.
The work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined.
There are few webs of stabilized, hairline cracks scattered throughout the surface, visible under close inspection.
Under Ultra Violet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration.
This work is in very good condition.
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"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
"It is the urgent need for interiority, the need to reach a more secret and real state of painting, it is this requirement that led Hantai to the intuition (or the thought) of small awakened brushstrokes, and simultaneously it is this way of painting that made his retreat, his renewal – let's say his rebirth. This has been a continually powerful and inspired work. (...)
For the first time Simon Hantai paints an art which does not graft onto the uses or the sociability of an art movement that precedes it, neither does it take from the gestural conformism of the ambient avant-garde. It opens onto a painting which is only from him, and simultaneously his talents explode."
(Dominique Fourcade, Simon Hantai, Exhibition catalogue, Centre Pompidou, 2013, p. 69)