André Marfaing’s Black Abstract Paintings

Published on 16 February 2023, by Vanessa Schmitz-Grucker

Auction on 14 March 2023 - 14:00 (CET) - Salle 5-6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

After a surge of interest from institutions in the past five years, the market is reassessing the unjustly forgotten French postwar painter.

André Marfaing (1925–1987), Untitled, 1971, oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm/36.22 x 28.74... André Marfaing’s Black Abstract Paintings

André Marfaing (1925–1987), Untitled, 1971, oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm/36.22 x 28.74 in.
Estimate: €15,000/20,000
© Adagp, Paris, 2023

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the artist’s death, in 2017 the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper hosted the straightforwardly entitled exhibition “André Marfaing. Paintings and Washes”. “We’re on the cusp of rediscovering his work,” said museum’s director and curator Guillaume Ambroise. “The time has come.” The market seems to agree: Marfaing’s…

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