Simon Hantaï
Blancs
1973
Acrylic on Canvas
246 x 240 cm.
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Courtesy the artist and the Estate of Simon Hantaï.
“I was thinking that I needed to see how Matisse’s color could be introduced into the random space of Pollock and what would happen when it was. . . . Paradoxically, the method of pliage is based on the fact that canvas stops being a projection screen and becomes a material.”