Across Europe and the United States, Georges Mathieu played a decisive role within abstraction during the movement’s burgeoning in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He departed from the geometrical abstractions that had dominated the previous era with a visual language that favored form over content and gesture over intent, and instead aimed for uninhibited creative expression. He termed this newfound aesthetic “lyrical abstraction,” after a description of his work by the French critic Jean José Marchand in 1947. Mathieu’s works are characterized by a calligraphic quality of line, which he achieved by using long brushes and applying paint directly from tubes onto the canvas. The immediacy and rapid execution of these distinct methods guaranteed the freedom with which he defined his work. According to Clement Greenberg, Mathieu was the most powerful among his contemporary European painters.
 
Mathieu’s work has been the subject of numerous retrospectives, and is in more than eighty museums and public permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Kunstmuseum Basel; Kunsthaus Zürich; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Tate, London.

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solo shows

2021
- Georges Mathieu, Perrotin, New York, USA, in collaboration wth Nahmad Contemporary 

2019
- Georges Mathieu, Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
- Monumental Paintings, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, USA

2018
- Les années 1960-1970, Templon Gallery, Paris, France

2014
- Vers l’abstraction lyrique, Castle-Museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

2006
- Little stable of the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
- Contemporary Art Space Fernet Branca, Saint-Louis, France

2003
- Retrospective, Galleria Credito Valtellinese, Milan, Italy
- Bénédictine Palace, Fécamp, France
- Saint-Georges and Saint-Paul Cathedrale, Liège, Belgium

2002
-  Retrospective, Jeu de Paume Museum, Paris, France

1991
- Galleria arte 92, Milan, Italy

1990
- Galleria d'arte Elleni, Bergamo, Italy
- Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden

1989
- Galleria dello scudo, Verona, Italy
- Ermitage Museum, Saint-Petersbourg, Russia
- Centro Culturale Sant'Andrea, Savona, Italy
- Galleria Art Valley, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
- Grand Palais, Paris, France (Solo booth at FIAC)

1988
- Galleria Narciso, Turin, Italy
- Galleria De Crescenzo, Rome, Italy
- Huber Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

1987
- Findlay Gallery, New York, USA
- Galleria La Loggia, Bologna, Italy
- Galleria De Crescenzo, Rome, Italy

1984
- Meridien Hotel, Singapore, Singapore

1980
- Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Poste Museum, Paris, France

1979
- Dominion Gallery, Montreal, Canada
- Wildestein, New York, USA

1978
- Grand Palais, Paris, France
- Lyrical Art Festival, Aix-en-Provence, France

1977
- Galeria Punto, Valencia, Spain
- Galeria Valera, Bilbao, Spain
- Kursaal, Ostenda, Belgium
- International Festival, Istanbul, Turkey

1976
- Picasso Museum, Antibes, France
- Galeria Beaubourg, Barcelona, Spain

1974
- Beaubourg Gallery, Paris, France

1973
- Opera, Berlin, Germany

1972
- Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon

1971
- Stadler Gallery, Paris, France
- Lalikata Academy, New Dehli, India

1967
- Argos Gallery, Nantes, France
- Kunstverein, Köln, Germany
- Air France, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France

1966
- Fine Arts Museum, Nantes, France

1965
- Gimpel & Hanover, Zurich, Switzerland
- Court Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
- K. B. Gallery, Oslo, Norway
- Galleria il Milione, Milan, Italy

1963
- Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art of Paris, France
- Art and Culture, Geneva, Belgium

1962
- Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- Neue Galerie in Künstlerhaus, München, Germany
- Galleria La Bussola, Turin, Italy
- Galleria l'Ariete, Milan, Italy
- Galleria La Loggia, Bologna, Italy
- Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1961
- Presidential Palace, Beirut, Lebanon

1960
- Museu de Arte, São Paolo, Brazil
- Ateneo, Madrid, Spain
- New London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy

1959
- Kunstverein, Köln, Germany
- Galleria San Babila, Milan, Italy
- Haus Lange Museum, Krefeld, Germany
- Museum of Fine Arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Athénee Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
- Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Bonino Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1958
- Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Art Latin Gallery, Stockholm, Switzerland
- Grange Gallery, Lyon, France
- Chichio Haller Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
- Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
- Galleria Castelnuovo, Ascona, Italy
- Museum of Fine Arts, Lièges, Belgium

1957
- Fine Art Palace, Brussels, Belgium
- Shirokiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Daimaru Gallery, Osaka, Japan
- Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, Italy
- Helios Art Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
- Galleria Selecta, Rome, Italy

1956
- Pierre Gallery, Paris, France
- Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom

1955
- Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York, USA

1954
- Kootz Gallery, New York, USA
- Rive Droite Gallery, Paris, France
- Art Club, Chicago, USA

1953
- Marcel Evrard Gallery, Lille, France

1952
- Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, France
- Stable Gallery, New York, USA

1951
- Véhémences Confrontées, Galerie Dausset, Paris, France

1950
- René Drouin Gallery, Paris, France

group shows

2021
- Odd Convergences, organized by Jean-Hubert Martin, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

2020
- Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury organized by Samantha Friedman, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2019
- Artistic Licence (curated by Richard Prince), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

2017
- Le geste et la matière, une abstraction “autre”, Paris, 1945-1965, Pompidou Centre / Clément Foundation, Martinique

2008
- Pensieri Ordinati, Bonioni Arte, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Estetika. Forma & segno. Da Renoir a De Chirico, Villa Ponti, Fondazione Art Museo, Arona, Italy

2007
- Nel segno della materia, Palazzo De Sanctis, Castellalto, Italy
- Sei mostre in contemporanea, Satura, Palazzo Stella, Genoa “Liberi Segni”, Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti, Turin, Italy

1999
- Posizioni. Museiondocumenta 1999: opera dalla collezione, Bolzen, Italy

1959
- Karel Appel, Georges Mathieu, Mattia Moreni, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland

1948
- H.W.P.S.M.T.B, Colette Allendy Gallery, Paris, France

1947
- Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France
- L'imaginaire, Gallery of Luxembourg, Paris, France

1946
- VI Salon de moins de 30 ans, Galleria of Fine Arts, Paris, France

public collections

- Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- The Art Institute, Chicago, USA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
- Los Angeles Country Museum, USA
- Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, USA
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
- Art Museum, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
- Seattle Art Museum, USA
- Philips Collections, Washington D.C, USA
- La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California, USA
- Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, D.C, USA
- Tate Gallery, London, UK
- Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- Museum of Modern Art of Paris, France
- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France
- Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
- Musée d'Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
- Picasso Museum, Antibes, France
- Musée de Grenoble, France
- National Fund of Contemporary Art, Paris, France
- Museum of Fine Arts, Orléans, France
- Palace of Fine Arts, Lille, France
- LaM, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France
- Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
- Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
- Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
- Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
- Städtische Kunstsammlungen und Wilhelm Hack Stiftung, Ludvigshafen, Germany
- Modern Galerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
- Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
- Museum of Fine Arts, Luik, Belgium
- Kunsthaus, Basel, Switzerland
- Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
- Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
- Museum of Contemporary Arts, Montreal, Canada
- Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
- National Museum Bezalel, Jerusalem, Israel
- Museum of Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Art Museum of Ohara, Kurashiki, Japan
- Gutaï Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
- Museum of Modern Arts, Tokyo, Japan

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2024

Geneviève ASSE, Anna-Eva BERGMAN, Hans HARTUNG, Georges MATHIEU, Serge POLIAKOFF, Gérard SCHNEIDER, Pierre SOULAGES, Maria Helena VIEIRA DA SILVA, WOLS, Zao WOU KI

April 13, 2024 - May 23, 2024

new york

130 Orchard Street

The New School of Paris through its Pioneering Women (1945-1964)

curated by Thomas Schlesser

2023

ELMGREEN & DRAGSET, JR, Koak, Jean-Marie APPRIOU, Iván ARGOTE, Daniel ARSHAM, Genesis BELANGER, Anna-Eva BERGMAN, Sophie CALLE, Julian CHARRIÈRE, Johan CRETEN, Jean-Philippe DELHOMME, Mathilde DENIZE, Lionel ESTÈVE, Jens FÄNGE, Bernard FRIZE, Laurent GRASSO, Vivian GREVEN, Hans HARTUNG, Charles HASCOËT, Thilo HEINZMANN, John HENDERSON, Leslie HEWITT, Gregor HILDEBRANDT, Dora JERIDI, Susumu KAMIJO, Bharti KHER, Klara KRISTALOVA, Georges MATHIEU, Takashi MURAKAMI, Sophia NARRETT, Katherina OLSCHBAUR, Danielle ORCHARD, Jean-Michel OTHONIEL, Paola PIVI, Gabriel RICO, Claude RUTAULT, Emily Mae SMITH, Jesús Rafael SOTO, Josh SPERLING, Tatiana TROUVÉ, Xavier VEILHAN, Bernar VENET, Pieter VERMEERSCH, LEE Bae, QI Zhuo, SHIM Moon-Seup

October 16, 2023 - November 10, 2023

paris

60 RUE DE TURENNE 75003 PARIS
2BIS AVENUE MATIGNON 75008 PARIS

Matignon - October+ group show

Georges MATHIEU

September 8, 2023 - September 30, 2023

paris

2BIS AVENUE MATIGNON 75008 PARIS

Jeremy DEMESTER, Elladj LINCY DELOUMEAUX, Gérard SCHNEIDER, Georges MATHIEU, Jason BOYD KINSELLA

August 21, 2023 - November 15, 2023

Dubai

DIFC, Gate Village, Building 5, Unit 1, Podium Level

Group Show

2021

Georges MATHIEU

September 8, 2021 - October 23, 2021

new york

130 Orchard Street

Georg BASELITZ, Jason BOYD KINSELLA, Daniel BUREN, Alexander CALDER, Maurizio CATTELAN, Lucio FONTANA, Peter HALLEY, Keith HARING, Donna HUANCA, Alain JACQUET, Anselm KIEFER, Yves KLEIN, Jannis KOUNELLIS, Glenn LIGON, Georges MATHIEU, François MORELLET, Takashi MURAKAMI, Ugo RONDINONE, Peter SAUL, Kenny SCHARF, Andy WARHOL, Tom WESSELMANN, FISCHER Urs, LEE Ufan

September 4, 2021 - December 18, 2021

paris

8 avenue Matignon

OPENING PERROTIN SECONDARY MARKET

curated by Cecile Degos

2020

Sophie CALLE, Johan CRETEN, Bernard FRIZE, Laurent GRASSO, Thilo HEINZMANN, KIM Chong-Hak, LEE Bae, Georges MATHIEU, Jean-Michel OTHONIEL, Park Seo-Bo, Maria TANIGUCHI, Xavier VEILHAN

November 24, 2020 - February 6, 2021

hong kong

807, 8/F, K11 ATELIER Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road,Tsim Sha Tsui

Floating World

JR, Sophie CALLE, Johan CRETEN, Wim DELVOYE, Bernard FRIZE, Laurent GRASSO, Hans HARTUNG, John HENDERSON, Leslie HEWITT, Gregor HILDEBRANDT, Bharti KHER, Klara KRISTALOVA, Georges MATHIEU, Paola PIVI, Gabriel RICO, Xavier VEILHAN, XU ZHEN®

April 30, 2020 - June 18, 2020

Shanghai

3/F, 27 Hu Qiu Road, Huangpu District

Wonderland

2019

Georges MATHIEU

November 21, 2019 - December 21, 2019

hong kong

50 CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, 17TH FLOOR - HONG KONG

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Closed for installation

Perrotin Los Angeles is closed for installation through Friday, April 5.

We look forward to welcoming you at our next exhibition, Art 2 by MSCHF. Join us at the opening on Saturday, April 6, 2024 between 3pm to 8pm! The exhibition will continue through June 1.
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