Author Description

"Includes more than 130 of Simon Hantaï's works, many of which have never before been shown, and the majority of which are large format works from 1957 to 2000. Covering the major successive periods of his work: Peintures à signes, Monochromes, Mariales, Catamurons, Panses, Meuns, Études, Blancs, Tabulas, Peintures polychromes, Sérigraphies and Laissées, before concluding with the last workshop. With two interviews with Zsuzsa Hantaï and Daniel Buren, conducted by Anne Baldassari, this book brings together essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jean Louis Schefer as well as a chronology of the life of Simon Hantaï by Anne Baldassari"--publisher's description.