Oil on canvas, framed. Featuring an abstract painting. Sigend and attr. Simon Hantai (Hungarian, 1922-2008), on the lower right corner. 46 x 56 cm (18.1 x 22 in.). Simon Hantaï was a French-Hungarian Conceptual artist and painter. During the 1960s, he developed a signature method of folding canvas and covering it in paint, which when opened revealed a distinctive pattern of color and negative space: a technique he called “pliage,†or folding. Some of his notable works include Mariales (Cloaks) (1960–1962) which emphasized color, and, by contrast, Les Blancs (Whites) (1973–1974), which stressed the absence of color. “It was while working on the Studies that I realized what my true subject was - the resurgence of the ground underneath my painting,†PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate

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