Auction on
16 March 2021 - 11:00 (CET) -
Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
This oil on canvas from Pierre Tal Coat’s mature period sums up the Breton painter’s whole philosophy on the visible and the invisible world. His goal: to reveal the universe.
Pierre Tal Coat (1905-1985), Couchant, oil on canvas, 130 x 130 cm (51.18 x 51.18 in). Estimate: €15,000/20,000
Pierre Tal Coat (1905-1985), Couchant, oil on canvas, 130 x 130 cm (51.18 x 51.18 in). Estimate: €15,000/20,000
“The surface reveals what lies beneath,” as Pierre Tal Coat once said. t hroughout his career, the artist who named himself “ w ood f ace" in b reton tried to shatter the space-support of the canvas by deploying it towards a moving space that was none other than the universe itself. He let…
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