Simon Hantaï (Bia, Hungary, 1922 - Paris, 2008)
Peinture, 1953 - 1954
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on the bottom left "Simon Hantaï 1953-54"
122 x 115 cm

Provenance:
- Galerie Kléber, Paris
- Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
- Paris auction, Drouot Montaigne, Etude Binoche, 8 December 1998, lot 1
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection, Paris

Bibliography:
- A. Berecz, "Emerging and withdrawing: Simon Hantai" volume 1, Kalman Maklary Fine Arts, "Simon Hantaï 1949 -1959", Budapest, 2012, described in the catalogue p. 274 and illustrated p. 18
- J. Pierre, "Le surréalisme", Ed. Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1973, illustrated in the catalogue p. 86

Our thanks to galerie Jean Fournier for kindly confirming that this work was registered in their archives under no. CF.1.4.20., and to Daniel Hantaï and the Simon Hantaï Archives.

This work will be illustrated in the catalogue raisonné currently under preparation by Daniel Hantaï for the Simon Hantaï Archives.