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L-5-1974

Creator: Hans Hartung
Offered by: White Court Art

Description
Title: L-5-1974
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1974
Signed, titled and inscribed by hand
Size: 16.4 × 12.5 on 29.8 × 21.8 inches

Hans Hartung (21 September 1904 – 7 December 1989) was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion.

In 1947 in Paris he had his first solo exhibition. By the late 1950s he had achieved recognition for his gestural paintings, which were nearly monochromatic and characterized by configurations of long rhythmical brushstrokes or scratches. In 1960 he was awarded the International Grand Prix for painting at the Venice Biennale.

Hartung's freewheeling abstract paintings set influential precedents for many younger American painters of the sixties, making him an important forerunner of American Lyrical Abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s. He was featured in the 1963 film documentary "School of Paris: (5 Artists at Work)" by American filmmaker Warren Forma.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1950-1979
Creation Date:	1974
Styles / Movements:	Abstract Expressionism, Other , Contemporary
Incollect Reference #:	538463

Dimensions

W.	21.8 in;	H.	29.8 in;
W.	55.37 cm;	H.	75.69 cm;

Message from Seller:

White Court Art is based in Wales, U.K and was founded by Richard Veal after many years of collecting for himself. White Court Art specialise mainly in emerging British Contemporary Art, but we also high light artists from Europe, who we think have merit and deserve attention. We have a passion for tracking, sourcing and curating eclectic fine art from Master Copyists to Emerging European talent. We also offer decorative pieces that bring that “something else” to our gallery.