Georges MATHIEU - Mathieu 50 ans de création - 2003

(Collectif) Georges Mathieu

Mathieu 50 years of creation

Editions Hervas, 2003. Large-format hardcover bound in full cloth with illustrated slipcase, 837 pages. Original edition. Unpublished archives of Georges Mathieu gathered in nine chapters that chronicle chronologically the life and work, as well as the salient events and major dates of the creator of lyrical abstraction. Monumental iconography in-text and out-of-text. Contents include: Some judgments on the work, Preface by Yves Rescalat, The voice of the blood, Period of the Limbo with Carolingian themes, Confrontation with Japan in the Celtic period, From the Orthogonal period to the Monnaie de Paris, The Renaissance of tomorrow with the fifteen monumental canvases at the Grand Palais, A thirty-meter painting painted in 90 minutes in prophetic abstraction, From the Palais des Papes to "L'Excellent" Louis de Broglie, The explosion of Rome at the great celebration at the Cordeliers in Châteauroux, Homage from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Toulouse; Around the Battle of Hastings, Now alone before God at the Jeu de Paume retrospective, Postface by Yves Rescalat. Copy in perfect condition.