Abstract Painting, Jean Miotte

Jean Miotte (1924-2016) 

"Composition"
gouache on Arches paper  - signed lower right 
size 40 X 40 cm - framed 54,5 X 54,5 cm 
perfect condition 

A propos
Jean Miotte (1926–2016), a French painter, turned to abstraction in 1950, influenced by Art Informel, Tachism, and Lyrical Abstraction.
His free, instinctive, and choreographic pictorial style conveys an inner language, without prior sketching. He began exhibiting in the 1950s, notably at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, and spent time in the United States, where he met Rothko and Calder. An international artist, he exhibited in major museums and founded his own foundation in 2002, now based in Fribourg.

Created in gouache on Arches paper, this work is characterized by sweeping gestures, a warm palette of reds, browns, and blacks, and great expressive vitality. The movement, spontaneity, and balance of the forms perfectly convey the artist's unique gestural sensibility. A work of great intensity, it is a perfect testament to Jean Miotte's major contribution to post-war abstract art.