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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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“Speed, intuition, excitement: that is my method of creation.” Thus natty George Mathieu. 36, French “action painter,” describes the process behind the globular, pyrotechnic displays that have earned ...

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