The market for work by the late abstract painter Georges Mathieu has been on a remarkable rise and fall and rise again since he first emerged in France in the postwar years, a period in which he has ...

Georges Mathieu was a French painter and theorist credited with launching the Lyrical Abstraction movement and the greater trend of Informalism in post-WWII Paris. He published several manifestoes ...

“Speed, intuition, excitement: that is my method of creation.” Thus natty George Mathieu. 36, French “action painter,” describes the process behind the globular, pyrotechnic displays that have earned ...

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Works owned by the founders of art-book publisher Abbeville Press could make up to $16m at Sotheby’s.