Simon Hantaï: Les blancs de la couleur, la couleur du blanc Leanne Sacramone The works in this catalogue

The works in this catalogue unfold within flat planar settings

from fin de siècle Paris to twentieth-century Vienna and postwar Tokyo

abstraction and figuration

The second volume of Jeff Wall’s catalogue raisonné features color reproductions and full documentation of seventy-three photographs taken by the artist between 2005 and 2021

Wood’s painting The down payment (2021) portrays a weeping Jerome in the midst of what the artist calls “the most directly surreal part of the story

Simon Hantaï: Les blancs de la couleur, la couleur du blanc Leanne Sacramone The works in this catalogueThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Simon Hanta: Les blancs de la couleur, la couleur du blanc at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. The title of the exhibitionthe gallerys second solo presentation of Hantas work since announcing its representation of his estate in 2019alludes to the artists use of white in several series. The featured paintings were made using his characteristic pliage (folding) technique, in which a canvas