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Hartung: Forerunner of Abstraction

Published on , by Caroline Legrand
Auction on 30 December 2020 - 14:30 (CET) - Le Galaxy, route des CréActeurs, BP 60089 - 14800 Deauville

The October 2019 to March 2020 Hans Hartung retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris put his work in a new light, evoking his role in the earliest days of abstract art.

Hans Hartung (1904-1989), Composition, 1973, ink, acrylic and pastel on baryta cardboard,... Hartung: Forerunner of Abstraction

Hans Hartung (1904-1989), Composition, 1973, ink, acrylic and pastel on baryta cardboard, 74.8 x 104.5 cm (29,3 x 41,8 in) at sight.
Estimate: €50,000/60,000

Hartung (1904-1989) gave free reign to spontaneity and instinct. Already as a child, he drew thunderbolts on his schoolbooks, and produced his first abstract works at barely 18. The young…
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Wednesday 30 December 2020 - 14:30 (CET) - Live
Le Galaxy, route des CréActeurs, BP 60089 - 14800 Deauville
Tradart-Deauville