Simon Hantaï: Azzurro Cynthia Carr and twenty brief histories of

and twenty brief histories of diamonds depicted in the paintings

The catalogue reproduces all of Saville’s work as plates and installed amid the elemental forms of the house’s architecture

In images that recall nineteenth-century American and European paintings

” states this survey of the artist’s work of the 1960s

Reflecting on this process

Simon Hantaï: Azzurro Cynthia Carr and twenty brief histories ofThis book was published on the occasion of Simon Hanta: Azzurro at Gagosian, Rome. Curated by Anne Baldassari, the exhibition focused on the significance of blue in the artists practice, illuminating his affinity with Italy and the influence on his work of its classical painting tradition. Azzurro featured work from throughout Hantas career and included many paintings produced using his characteristic pliage (folding) technique, in which a canvas is