Untitled, 1955
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
100 x 65 cm 39 3/8 x 25 19/32 in.
PROVENANCE
Collection Hervé and Gérard Mille, Rome
Leslie Sacks Fine Art Private Collection, Los Angeles
To the present owner by successive assignments
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Verdet, Atlan, Editions Georges Fall/ Le Musée de Poche, Paris, 1956, reproduced in color p. 23
Revue Connaissance des Arts n°130, Paris, December 1962, reproduced p. 152
J. Polieri, Atlan, Catalogue Raisonné de l'OEuvre Complet, Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1996, reproduced in colour under n°285, p. 248
Jean-Michel Atlan
Jean-Michel Atlan was born in 1913 in Constantine, Algeria, which he left to study philosophy at the Sorbonne, which led him to become a teacher in a Parisian high school. Imprisoned until 1943, Atlan then published collections of poems and never stopped painting. From 1946 onwards his work was successful with exhibitions first at Denise René and then at Maeght. Despite this initial success, he broke with the galleries and isolated himself from the art world, although he continued to paint and send works to various salons as well as meeting his painter friends such as Georges Mathieu and Pierre Soulages. In 1957, Atlan's career took off again before his premature death in 1960. Finally, Jean-Michel Atlan's painting was recognized by institutions when a retrospective exhibition was held in 1963 at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris and then in 1980 at the Musée Pompidou.
This oil on canvas from 1955 is very characteristic of Atlan's work during this period, with powerful strokes, ochre colours and a reduced palette.
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