Jean-Michel ATLAN
Description
1957
Oil on canvas.
Signed "Atlan" and dated "57" lower right.
Accompanied by a certificate signed by Madame Atlan dated January 5, 1974.
Ader auction catalog, Paris, 1988, no. 134 reproduced in color.
Catalog for the exhibition “Maîtres impressionistes et modernes”, Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, 1989, no. 34 reproduced in color.
Polieri, Jacques; White, Kenneth, “Atlan, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre complet”, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1996, pp. 300 and 301 (reproduced in color and numbered 475).
“Maîtres impressionistes et modernes”, Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, May 18 - July 8 1989.
65 cm
100 cm
85.5 cm
120.3 cm
(with frame)
Here begins the writing of the impossible, “each of my paintings differs from the previous one”. Vertical-to-horizontal reversal for many formats.
“I'm always striving to push back my limits.”
Symmetries are multiplied, inversions, impressions, reflections, chiaroscuro, and knots are organized in whole families, diversifying the subject matter, depositing a thousand combinations, a combinatory of innumerable quotients and infinite indexes.
Here, in particular, and in the series that follows, the shadows in the foreground stand out in contrasting asymmetries against the colored backgrounds, forming chiaroscuro.
Polieri, Jacques; White, Kenneth, “Atlan, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre complet”, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1996, p. 296