Untitled
May one see it?
Not receiving at present
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 341.2008
In the catalog
Sources
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Image: The Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
Meanwhile, in the life of Henri Michaux
The whole life1940s and 1950s
Association with Tachisme
In the 1940s and 1950s he is associated with Tachisme, though that describes only a small part of his artistic achievement, such as his hallucinatory representations of faces and heads; his work often uses dense, suggestively gestural strokes that incorporate calligraphy, asemic writing and abstract expressionism.
11 July 1959 – 11 October 1959
Exhibition: Documenta II
1960
Prize at the Venice Biennale
He wins a prize at the 1960 Venice Biennale, after which, in 1964, the first worldwide retrospective of his paintings and graphic work opens.
1963
Lutosławski sets his poems to music
Witold Lutosławski composes “Three Poems of Henri Michaux” for mixed choir and orchestra; in 1965 the French composer Henri Sauguet writes three pieces for voice.
