Realm (Royaume)

Realm (Royaume)

Jean-Michel AtlanWW-1957-M029212
1957·Pastel on colored paper·9 7/8 × 12 7/8" (25.1 × 32.7 cm)

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Year
1957
Dimensions
9 7/8 × 12 7/8" (25.1 × 32.7 cm)

Artist

Jean-Michel Atlan
Jean-Michel Atlan

Painting

Jean-Michel Atlan was a French abstract painter whose work emerged from the postwar Paris avant-garde. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he developed a gestural, non-representational language marked by dense brushwork and a restrained palette of earth tones and muted colors. His paintings resist narrative or symbolic reading, instead emphasizing the materiality of paint and the act of mark-making itself. Atlan remained largely independent from the dominant movements of his era, maintaining a distinctive visual vocabulary until his death in 1960.

Qacentina, Algeria

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Front cover from Frie Kunstnere , Volume 4

Front cover from Frie Kunstnere , Volume 4

1950 · Lithograph

WW-1950-M012064
Frontspiece from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

Frontspiece from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

1945 · One from an illustrated book with sixteen lithographs (including wrapper and eight head and tailpieces) and sixteen line block ornaments

WW-1945-M008185
Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

1945 · Illustrated book with sixteen lithographs (including wrapper and eight head and tailpieces) and sixteen line block ornaments

WW-1945-M008186
Plate (page 59) from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

Plate (page 59) from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

1945 · One from an illustrated book with sixteen lithographs (including wrapper and eight head and tailpieces) and sixteen line block ornaments

WW-1945-M008187
Plate (page 35) from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

Plate (page 35) from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

1945 · One from an illustrated book with sixteen lithographs (including wrapper and eight head and tailpieces) and sixteen line block ornaments

WW-1945-M008197
Tailpiece (page 74) from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

Tailpiece (page 74) from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)

1945 · One from an illustrated book with sixteen lithographs (including wrapper and eight head and tailpieces) and sixteen line block ornaments

WW-1945-M008189

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Year
1957
Dimensions
9 7/8 × 12 7/8" (25.1 × 32.7 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1957-M029212

Source

Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

Jean-Michel Atlan

Jean-Michel Atlan

Painting

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