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JEAN MESSAGIER 1920/1999

Name: JEAN MESSAGIER 1920/1999
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: 3VKBN2Q6NN
Price: 4500 EUR
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By Gallery GALERIE BERNARD B

4.500 €

Period 20th century

Style 50's, 60's, 70's

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LARGE COMPOSITION IN MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER 57X86CM BY THIS GREAT ABSTRACTION ARTIST.

In 1953, James Johnson Sweeney, then director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, discovered the young Messagier as a protagonist of certain burgeoning movements such as the second School of Paris, lyrical abstraction and informal art. Messagier refuses these labels, of course, but they allow him to be invited to participate in the exhibition “Younger European Painters,” which travels to Minneapolis, Portland and San Francisco after its launch in New York. Thirty years later, in 1982, he had a personal exhibition in Chicago.

In France and Europe, Messagier's reputation is very important and long-standing. He represented France at the 1967 Salón de Mayo in Havana, the 31st Venice Biennale, and the 8th São Paulo Biennale. A first catalog raisonné of Messagier's prints and sculptures was published in 1975. The French state ordered postage stamps, commercial medals and tapestries from him for the Gobelins factory. He was asked to design theater sets, posters, wine labels, boxes of biscuits, floats for carnival parades, ephemeral sculptures. The events and festivities he organized could be described today as happenings, and he is still remembered for his aggressive attacking positions when playing football in matches he liked to organize between artists and gallery owners.

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Additional Information

Condition	Good
Style	50's, 60's, 70's (Abstract paintings of 50's, 60's, 70's Style)
Period	20th century (Abstract paintings 20th century)
Country of origin	France
Artist	MESSAGIER