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3417* GEORGES NOËL(Béziers 1924 - 2010 Paris)
Formes et rythmes spacieux. 1965.
Mixed media and collage on paper,
on canvas.
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse:
Georges Noël Formes et rythmes
spacieux 1965.
114 x 146 cm.
Born in Béziers in 1924, Georges Noël
first began to study engineering in 1938.
After the Second World War he worked
as draughtsman and graphic designer for
the aviation company Turboméca. With his
move to Paris in 1956, he met the artists
of the Nouveau Réalisme movement and
engaged increasingly with the art of Jean
Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier and Raymond
Hains. Having decided to dedicate himself
to art, at the end of the 1950s he develo-
ped a painting technique based on Polyvi-
nyl acetate and so his first works known as
Palimpsests were produced.
His works from the 1960s, of which the
present piece is an example, are noted
for their use of a strict sign language, with
progressively more symbols from archaic
cultures. By examining these cultures and
their symbolism, this gives access to a
spiritual element in his art. Alongside Infor-
mel Art, to which he is very close, he also
engaged closely with Minimal Art when
travelling in the United States, and lived for
some years in Minneapolis and New York.
In 1982 he finally returned to his home in
France and died in Paris in 2010.
Alongside many exhibitions, he also took
part in documenta III.
CHF 5 000 / 7 000
(€ 4 630 / 6 480)