Anton Martineau (1926-2017) - Untitled





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Anton Martineau (1926–2017)
Living in Amsterdam and trained at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts (The Hague) and the State Academy of Fine Arts (Amsterdam), Anton Martineau is an artist of international stature. He exhibited in 1967 with Saura and Tapies at Galerie Stadler in Paris. Together with his friend Jan Sierhuis, he belonged to a somewhat younger generation than the painters of Cobra. His body of work includes paintings, drawings, and prints in a strongly expressionist figurative style. Spontaneous drawing plays an important role in his work.
Subjects are primarily: humans, dancing couples, tango, eroticism, the drama of love and death, joy and fear, absurd portraits, and still lifes. His lyrical style was sometimes classified as part of the international new figuration but also shows affinities with the expressionism of Cobra and Lucebert. He was therefore friends with Karel Appel, Corneille, and poet Gerrit Kouwenaar. Due to his desire to follow a completely individual path, he did not seek close ties with Cobra. However, the development of his work in the mid-1960s coincided with the zeitgeist of the Provo movement and the sexual revolution. The pleasure Martineau derives from painting and working with oil paint may be evident from his comparison of the sensual experience of squeezing a tube of paint to an orgasm, ... even though the actual work has yet to begin.
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Anton Martineau (1926–2017)
Living in Amsterdam and trained at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts (The Hague) and the State Academy of Fine Arts (Amsterdam), Anton Martineau is an artist of international stature. He exhibited in 1967 with Saura and Tapies at Galerie Stadler in Paris. Together with his friend Jan Sierhuis, he belonged to a somewhat younger generation than the painters of Cobra. His body of work includes paintings, drawings, and prints in a strongly expressionist figurative style. Spontaneous drawing plays an important role in his work.
Subjects are primarily: humans, dancing couples, tango, eroticism, the drama of love and death, joy and fear, absurd portraits, and still lifes. His lyrical style was sometimes classified as part of the international new figuration but also shows affinities with the expressionism of Cobra and Lucebert. He was therefore friends with Karel Appel, Corneille, and poet Gerrit Kouwenaar. Due to his desire to follow a completely individual path, he did not seek close ties with Cobra. However, the development of his work in the mid-1960s coincided with the zeitgeist of the Provo movement and the sexual revolution. The pleasure Martineau derives from painting and working with oil paint may be evident from his comparison of the sensual experience of squeezing a tube of paint to an orgasm, ... even though the actual work has yet to begin.
Viewing of the plot is always possible. All contact information can be found on our own website. Art Dumay has an in-house list-making workshop with nearly 100 years of experience. If you're interested, please contact us and we will be happy to assist you.

