Alfred Manessier Composition
10.01.1965
Mixed media on Paper
Signed, dated and dedicated
10.24 x 7.87 in ( 26,9 x 20,9 cm )ZoomInquiry - Composition, 10.01.1965
Provenance
Eddy Novarro, gift of the artist
Private Collection, Germany
Literature
Who is who, E.Novarro and the avant-garde from the 50s to the 70s, Wienand, 2011, p.155
Exhibited
Pablo Picasso Museum, Munster, Germany, 2011
Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany, 2015
Artwork's description
Alfred Manessier is a French abstract painter, born in 1911 in Saint-Ouen and died on August 1, 1993 in Orléans. Great faithful, he will try from 1943, to give an abstract expression to the Christian faith. It will depart from any figuration, but will remain figurative only a few religious symbols, such as: the cross, the thorn, the circle, etc. It was in 1947 that sacred art took a new step towards abstract art, thanks to the openness of one of the religious institutions: the Diocesan Commission of Sacred Art, which entrusted it with the realization of two stained glass for the church of Sainte Agathe des Bréseux. In this work on paper, we see that the painter painted like a mosaic or a stained glass window. He uses intense colors, which brings luminosity, like the divine light transmitted by the stained-glass windows.