Galerie Maeght - Simon Hantai Exhibition Poster Framed Print, 73.5 x 51.5cm

A lithograph poster originally designed for Simon Hantaï's 1968 exhibition at the Maeght Foundation in the south of France. This reproduction is presented in a contemporary black box frame, ready to wall hang.

Simon Hantaï (1922 - 2008) was a painter born in Hungary. He moved to France in 1948 and is considered as a major figure within the genre of abstract painting. 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. The works involved the artist folding or knotting his canvas before painting large blocks of colour on them. He would then unfold them to see what patterns emerged. He continued to produce these works through the 1980s, but he withdrew from the art world after representing France in the 1982 Venice Biennale. He briefly re-emerged for a 1998 exhibition of his collages.

Galerie Maeght is a gallery of modern art in Paris. The gallery was opened in 1946 by renowned art dealer and collector Aimé Maeght. Today, Galerie Maeght is considered as one of the cornerstones of twentieth-century modern art.

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