1972 Manessier by Hodin - English Edition Art Book - Mid Century French Abstract Painter

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Offered is a scarce monograph featuring the work of the modernist french painter Alfred Manessier. This first edition in English … Read more Offered is a scarce monograph featuring the work of the modernist french painter Alfred Manessier. This first edition in English was published by Praeger in 1972. A large, almost square folio, it includes 243 pp with 120 full page color plates.

Alfred Manessier (1911-1993) was a French painter, lithographer, and designer of tapestries and stained glass. During the 1930s his work was influenced by Cubism and Surrealism, but after staying at a Trappist monastery in 1943 he became deeply committed to religion and turned to expressing spiritual meaning through abstract art. Characteristically his paintings feature rich colours within a loose linear grid, creating an effect reminiscent of stained glass (a medium in which he did some of his best work). After the Second World War Manessier came to be regarded as one of the leading exponents of expressive abstraction in the School of Paris and won numerous awards, notably the main painting prize at the 1962 Venice Biennale. See less