Carmelo ARDEN-QUIN (1913-2010) - Lot 58

Carmelo ARDEN-QUIN (1913-2010) Wreaths XI, 1948 Painting on cut cardboard Monogrammed and dated lower right On the back titled, countersigned, dated and located Paris 41.5 × 52.5 cm Provenance : Carole Agenauer (or Hagelauer) Collection, France. Exhibitions : Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, "Arden Quin, Rétrospective 1936-1985", May 11 - June 23, 1985. Paris, Galerie Down-Town, "Arden Quin", June 4 - July 15, 1987, repr. Metz, Galerie de l'Esplanade / École des Beaux-Arts de Metz, "Carmelo ARDEN QUIN, œuvres de 1934 à 1956", July 1 - September 3, 1994. Bibliography: S. Resnik, R. Neyrat, Arden Quin, A. de la Salle, "ARDEN QUIN, œuvres 1934/1994", ed. École des Beaux-Arts de Metz, 1995, repr. p. 77. Shelley Goodman, "Carmelo Arden Quin: When art jumped out of its cage", ed. MADI Museum and Gallery Gallery, Dallas, 2004, repr. p. 2-VII. Alexandre de la Salle, "Arden Quin, catalog raisonné", ed. L'image et la Parole, Cagnes-sur-Mer, 2008, no. 190, repr. p. 213. In 1946, Arden-Quin defined the precepts governing the MADI manifesto, of which he was a founder: 1. Ban all interference with the phenomena of expression, representation and meaning. 2. MADI drawing is an arrangement of points and lines on a surface that can create a form or a relationship of planes. 3. MADI painting: color and two-dimensionality. Flat polygonal structure. Curved, concave or convex convex. Our painting, historic for its creation date (1948), corresponds to the year in which Arden-Quin moved to Paris.