Henri Michaux

24 by 18cm.
Executed in 1955-58.

Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Élie de Rothschild, Paris
Acquired by the present owner from the above

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear to the edges and corners of the sheet, which has yellowed slightly with time. There is a minor yellow stain 2 inches from the left edge at the bottom of the sheet. The sheet is sandwiched between two sheets of glass and is mounted to panel. This work has not been examined out of its frame. Please note the auction begins at 9:00 am on November 12th.
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"Because after all, this painting, and most of [Michaux's] paintings, have always been about delayed ways of remaking the human image, through a mark which is totally outside an illustrational mark but yet always conveys you back to the human image - a human image generally dragging and trudging through deep ploughed fields, or something like that. They are about these images moving and falling and so on." - Francis Bacon, 1966