Aurelie Nemours : Catalogue raisonné

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Informationen zum Autor Art historian, professor emeritus at the Paris IV- Sorbonne University, Serge Lemoine was the director of the Musee de Grenoble from 1986 to 2001, then president of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris from 2001 to 2008. Klappentext A catalogue raisonné dedicated to Aurelie Nemours (1910-2005), one of the greatest French abstract painters of the second half of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This volume is a study of the life and work of Aurelie Nemours including the paintings! pastels! and collages that she produced over half a century. In 1952 she developed her own language consisting of simple geometric forms! some patches of color! and orthogonal lines that give her compositions their regular and well-ordered structure. Her oeuvre consists of sequences! periods! and series! which sometimes extended over several years! and followed on from one another or overlapped.