Aurélie Nemours (1910-2005): Unité vert et jaune

Aurélie Nemours (1910–2005): Unité vert et jaune (2015)
 
Mixed-media 3D lithograph in colours on wove paper
Sheet size: 80 x 61 cm
Signed and numbered in pencil
Published by Galerie-F GmbH, Kranenberg, Germany, with their blindstamp
 
Condition: good, with some minor, nearly invisible bumps on the collage.
 
Aurélie Nemours (1910–2005) was one of the foremost French painters of geometric abstraction. Born in Paris, she studied at the École du Louvre and later trained with Fernand Léger and at the atelier of André Lhote, before committing herself entirely to a radically reductive abstract language. From the late 1940s she pursued an art stripped to its essentials — the right angle, the square, the line and pure, unmodulated colour — aligning her with the international movement of Concrete art.
 
Across more than half a century Nemours developed series of severe, meditative compositions in which rhythm, proportion and the relationship between black, white and a few saturated colours carry the entire expressive weight. Her "Unité" works, to which this colour lithograph belongs, exemplify her lifelong search for an absolute, almost spiritual order. Widely exhibited and collected, she was honoured late in life with major retrospectives, including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and is recognised as a key figure of twentieth-century European abstraction.
 
This 2015 three-dimensional colour lithograph, published posthumously by Galerie-F, translates Nemours's rigorous geometry into a luminous interplay of green and yellow.