Henri MICHAUX (1899-1984) Untitled, 1964 Ink on paper, monog - Lot 110

Henri MICHAUX (1899-1984) Untitled, 1964 Ink on paper, monogrammed lower right. 75 x 105 cm (Micro-tears at edges, small damp stains on back, small tear at upper right, paper slightly yellowed) Provenance: Paris, Galerie Daniel CORDIER. French collection Bibliography: Tisné, Kurt Leonhard, Henri Michaux (1967), p. 58 Exhibitions: - Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, 1965, Henri Michaux, indexed under no. 244 - Galerie Chave, Vence, 2002, Peintures 1955-1984, reproduced in catalog p.25 This work will be recorded in the catalog raisonné being prepared by Micheline Phankim, Rainer Michael Mason and Franck Leibovici under number HM5891. From the mid-50s onwards, Indian ink became Michaux's preferred material, and he continued to use it throughout the next 20 years or so. He experimented with stains, their movement and the struggle against their disorder. On the white sheet, it's a battle, a succession of decisions, a strategy and an organization of movements: crowds, raging hordes, fighting empires, confrontations, battlefields, always bringing into play the multitude of inner fermentations. These "ink paintings" were first exhibited in 1954 at the Galerie René Drouin.