Lyrical Abstraction, a term coined by art critic Jean José Marchand in 1947, emerged in postwar Paris as a strain of total abstraction. The self-proclaimed inventor of this painting style was French ...
Georges Mathieu was a French painter and theorist credited with launching the Lyrical Abstraction movement and the greater trend of Informalism in post-WWII Paris. He published several manifestoes ...
Works owned by the founders of art-book publisher Abbeville Press could make up to $16m at Sotheby’s.