Geneviève Claisse (1935-2018): Composition (2016)

Geneviève Claisse (1935–2018): Composition (2016)
Serigraph on perspex, edition of 30, signed and numbered
Format: 50 x 50 cm
Published by Galerie-F, Kranenburg
Used condition with some minor marks.
 
Geneviève Claisse (1935–2018) was a leading French painter of geometric abstraction. Born in Quiévy in northern France, she was the great-niece of the pioneering abstract painter Auguste Herbin, a founder of the Abstraction-Création group, who recognised her talent early and regarded her as his natural successor. In 1959 she moved to Paris and shared a studio with Herbin, and from 1961 she exhibited regularly at the celebrated Galerie Denise René, the foremost gallery for geometric and kinetic art.
 
Claisse's work is built on a rigorous vocabulary of pure geometric forms — above all the circle and the triangle — explored through serial compositions in which the extreme simplicity of the shapes is transformed by precisely calibrated colour relationships. From the mid-1960s she increasingly concentrated on colour and on series such as Cercles and ADN, pursuing an art of formal purity and flawless execution.
 
Her paintings are held in public collections including the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis. This 2016 serigraph on perspex distils her lifelong language of crisp geometry and luminous colour into a precise, jewel-like composition.