Lyrical Abstraction, a term coined by art critic Jean José Marchand in 1947, emerged in postwar Paris as a strain of total abstraction. The self-proclaimed inventor of this painting style was French ...

The market for work by the late abstract painter Georges Mathieu has been on a remarkable rise and fall and rise again since he first emerged in France in the postwar years, a period in which he has ...

As works from Thessa Herold’s personal collection are offered online, we look back at a life devoted to cutting-edge art and artists, and explore some of the highlights of the sale. Under the High ...

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Georges Mathieu, whose large abstract paintings and painting performances made him one of France’s most famous and financially successful artists, Mathieu at work on a canvas called “Queen Anne of ...

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Georges Mathieu was a French painter and theorist credited with launching the Lyrical Abstraction movement and the greater trend of Informalism in post-WWII Paris. He published several manifestoes ...

Works owned by the founders of art-book publisher Abbeville Press could make up to $16m at Sotheby’s.