Droites I / III
Jean-Claude Bossel
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£27,788
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Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£27,788
Painting - 140 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£44,272
Painting - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£38,967
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
£29,684
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£32,975
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£47,156
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£47,156
Painting - 130 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£23,528
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
£29,684
Painting - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£41,408
Painting - 140 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£44,272
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£31,873
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£50,059
Painting - 110 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£29,684
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
£44,272
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£41,408
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£23,499
Painting - 110 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£29,684
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
£44,272
Print - 64 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.2 x 19.3 x 0 inch
£889
Painting - 92 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,066
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
£5,332
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£5,030
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£5,030
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£5,030
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£755
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£5,030
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£711
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.7 inch
£2,098
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£12,886
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£7,998
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 2 inch
£332
Painting - 115 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
£3,110
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£427
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.5 inch
£6,966
Painting - 155 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 61 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£2,044
Painting - 110 x 205 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 80.7 x 0 inch
£2,551
Painting - 110 x 155 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 61 x 0 inch
£2,222
Painting - 235 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 92.5 x 59.1 x 0 inch
£4,399
Painting - 205 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 80.7 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£2,622
Painting - 121.9 x 172.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 68 x 1 inch
£6,717
Painting - 100 x 140 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.6 inch
£1,866
The phrase gestural abstraction refers to a way of making art - not what necessarily gets painted, but how it does. By abandoning the application of paint to a surface in a controlled and premeditated way, gestural painters apply paint intuitively, physically, by dripping, splattering, pouring, smearing or throwing it at the surface itself. What matters to the gestural abstraction painters then isn't the paint but the physicality, honesty, intuition and deep personal expression. This in turn leads to the artist abandoning a focus on subject matter, turning inward for inspiration. As such, the act of painting itself becomes the subject. Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner and Franz Kline led this movement from the 1940s onwards, with Jackson Pollock undoubtedly being the most notable with his pierced paint tins, dripping across the surface of Number 1A, 1948 (1948). Abstract gestural painters explore their deepest emotions and they express that part of themselves during the physical act of painting. Pollock would later note that he had no fears about making changes to a painting, because, he said, the work has a life of its own. The painting itself is a relic of the action, it is a recording of the gestures made. Still influencing artists today, the likes of Caroline Vis and Sebastien Desnos (s3b desnos) both reference Pollock in their work, either echoing the expression of emotion or indeed as Desnos puts it, “action painting."