Gilou Brillant

Untitled 2, Colorful Signed Abstract Etching by Gilou Brillant

circa 1975

Artist: Gilou Brillant Title: Untitled 2 Year: 1974 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed in pencil Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Artist: Gilou Brillant Title: Untitled 28 Year: circa 1975 Medium: Aquatint Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 78/99 Size: 35.5 x 25.5 in. (90.17 x 64.77 cm)

Jean Miotte - Original Etching 1998 Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm Edition: /40 From La Déchirure Jean Miotte, 1926 - 2016 Miotte came of artistic age in the decade after World War II when non-figurative gestural abstraction was emerging on both sides of the Atlantic as the contemporary artistic language. The term, "L'Art Informel," was coined by the French critic, Michel Tapi, to connote "without form." The negation of traditional form, a radical break from established notions of order and composition, was particularly suited to a cultural environment born out of the circumstances of post war Europe where abuse of morals and fascist ideology had led to such horror and destruction. While Informel is often regarded as the European equivalent of Abstract Expressionism, it is distinguished from its American counterpart, by a loss of faith in progress and the collective possibilities of an avant garde. Rather the artists who came to be grouped as Informel, Jean Miotte, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Emil Schumacher...

Jean Miotte - Original Etching 1998 Dimensions: 41 x 33 cm Edition: /40 From La Déchirure