Plate (page 35) from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1945
- Dimensions
- composition (irreg.): 9 5/16 × 7 1/2" (23.7 × 19 cm); page: 11 13/16 × 9 7/16" (30 × 24 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Jean-Michel Atlan
Artist
Painting
Jean-Michel Atlan was a French abstract painter whose work emerged from the postwar Paris avant-garde. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he developed a gestural, non-representational language marked by dense brushwork and a restrained palette of earth tones and muted colors. His paintings resist narrative or symbolic reading, instead emphasizing the materiality of paint and the act of mark-making itself. Atlan remained largely independent from the dominant movements of his era, maintaining a distinctive visual vocabulary until his death in 1960.
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Realm (Royaume)
1957 · Pastel on colored paper
Front cover from Frie Kunstnere , Volume 4
1950 · Lithograph
Frontspiece from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)
1945 · One from an illustrated book with sixteen lithographs (including wrapper and eight head and tailpieces) and sixteen line block ornaments
Plate (page 59) from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)
1945 · One from an illustrated book with sixteen lithographs (including wrapper and eight head and tailpieces) and sixteen line block ornaments
Plate (page 27) from Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)
1945 · One from an illustrated book with sixteen lithographs (including wrapper and eight head and tailpieces) and sixteen line block ornaments
Description of a Struggle (Description d'un combat)
1945 · Illustrated book with sixteen lithographs (including wrapper and eight head and tailpieces) and sixteen line block ornaments
Record
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- Jean-Michel Atlan
- Year
- 1945
- Dimensions
- composition (irreg.): 9 5/16 × 7 1/2" (23.7 × 19 cm); page: 11 13/16 × 9 7/16" (30 × 24 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1945-M008197
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified