Hartung-Bergman Foundation
Never before this work, had Hans Hartung tackled such a large format (185 x 300 cm). This historic painting featured at The Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1975 in an exhibition of the artist's recent paintings curated by Henry Geldzahler, who compared Hartung's output to that of the last Brahms. He praised the increasingly 'elegiac' and ‘remarkable' character of his work.
The simple composition is divided into two very sober colored sections, with two huge black commas painted with a brush, light enough at certain points to reveal a few transparencies. The painting was made in the studio of his villa in Antibes, and the oblique line separating the two chromatic zones is clearly reminiscent of an architectural element found throughout his new property: the buttress.
Hartung, who was obsessed with signs and traces, never enlarged them as much as in this particular canvas. The calligraphy of his gesture, and the movement on the support, will never reach such a scale anywhere else as in T1974-R1.
Hans Hartung: Revenge, Perrotin, New York, USA, 2023
Hans Hartung "Le geste et la méthode", Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France, 2008
Hans Hartung, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, 2000
Hans Hartung, l'époque d'Antibes 1973-1988, Abbaye des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France, 1988
L'espace abstrait, Acropolis, Nice, France, 1986
Hans Hartung. Grands formats, Salle Saint-Jean, Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Paris, France, 1985
Hans Hartung Painting 1971-1975, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 1975
Hans Hartung le geste et la méthode, Enrici Michel, Abadie Daniel, Clair Jean, Vallier Dora, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France, 2008
Hans Hartung Bilder aus den Jahren 1973-74 und 1980-81, Dube Wolf-Dieter, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany, 2003
Hans Hartung, D'Amico Fabricio, Appella Giuseppe, Passoni Riccardo, Umberto Allemandi & C, Turin, Itay, 2000
Hartung, Daix Pierre, Éditions de Grenelle/ Daniel Gervis, Paris, France, 1991
Hans Hartung. Une abstraction sans précédent, Daix Pierre, Art Press, Paris, France, September 1985
Hans Hartung grands formats 1971-1984, Daix Pierre, Asso pour la promo des Arts Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France, 1985
Terzo inserto de Staccare, Marinelli Guido, Prospettive d'arte, Milan, Italy, January 1978
Hans Hartung, Parinaud André, Éditions Brixia, Milan, Italy, 1978
Hartung, Descargues Pierre, Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris, France, 1977
Hans Hartung Paintings 1971-1975, Geldzahler Henry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 1975
Sauré W, Weltkunst, Munich, Germany, December 1975