The Estate of Gérard Schneider
This painting was created during the decade known as "les années lumière” (the light years). Schneider's work during this period was luminous, and his reputation was growing, gaining international recognition. Critics unanimously considered Schneider to be one of France's greatest painters.
He finally achieved the synthesis of form and color to which he had always aspired.
Schneider painted sweeping works, his broad brushwork emphasizing their expressive monumentality; on vast expanses of solid color (often blue, as in this painting), single-hued forms collided.
This new form of expression emerged when he began using acrylics, which are more liquid, limpid, and dry faster. His color palette became lighter and brighter, favoring purples, jade greens, and saffron yellows.
- Rhapsody in Blue, 27 October - 22 December 2023, Perrotin New York, USA
- Gérard Schneider, 17 October - 17 December 2022, Perrotin Paris, France
- L'Espace lyrique - l'action painting, l'abstraction lyriques et leurs environs : le signe, la tache, le nuage... des années cinquante à nos jours, 30th June - 16th September 1973, Abbaye de Beaulieu, Ginals, Lexos, Tarn-et-Garonne, France