BRAFA Art Fair

For its twelfth participation in BRAFA, the Galerie A&R Fleury unveils a collection of twentieth-century paintings, sculptures and works on paper, carefully selected for the event.

A first space is devoted to post-war art and brings together works by Karel Appel, Sam Francis, Hans Hartung, Alicia Penalba, Serge Poliakoff, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva. The visitor is greeted by Optez pour l’esprit, acrylic on kraft paper laid on canvas, created by Pierre Alechinsky in 1966. Drawing inspiration from the Nordic stories, the artist plunges us into a truly anguishing “extraordinary” world where the spectator is invited to a kind of disheveled celebration of shapes and colours. Hans Hartung, who had a major retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris in 2019, is present through a collection of works from the 1940s to the 1980s, including an exceptional oil on canvas, T1952-34, from 1952, whose spontaneous gesture foreshadows lyrical abstraction.