Art on Paper

A&R Fleury gallery is please to be participating for the first time in the fair Art on Paper. On this occasion, it will offer to rediscover key works, on paper, by few of the most compelling Post-War artists related to European abstract art.

Within this rigorous selection, standout pieces emerge. The Blue Between the Red and Green (1960) by Sam Francis reflects the culmination of the artist’s 1950s work and his discovery of Paris and Monet’s landscapes, which left a profound impact on him. It also embodies a truly remarkable moment in art history, that of abstraction and its swift development. At the same time, Lucio Fontana was creating Spatialism, a movement represented by Concetto spaziale (1968), which reveals another dimension through perforations (buchi), a radical and entirely innovative technique. From the 1960s onward, Geneviève Claisse embarked on research into abstract art, renewing it in surprising ways. The artist developed a highly personal geometric language with her Circles series (1966), arranging the shapes, tangentially or intersecting, while applying pigments, sometimes vivid, sometimes muted. Art became geometric, paving the way for a mathematical spirit later perpetuated by Bernar Venet, whose line drawings resonate with his monumental sculptures, now seen in the urban landscapes of the world’s greatest cities. The gallery is pleased to offer a focus on his graphic work, centred around the concept of indeterminacy.