François Morellet Art

François Morellet, 2 Trames de Tirets 0° 90°, 1974
Oil on canvas
Estimate: 20,000 to 30,000 Euro


François Morellet, 2 Trames de Tirets 0° 90°, 1974
Oil on canvas
Estimate: 20,000 to 30,000 Euro

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François Morellet is a contemporary French painter, engraver, sculptor and light artist. His early work prefigured Minimal art and Conceptual art, and he has played an important role in geometrical abstraction over the past half century. François Morellet is also considered to be artist who was influenced by the German Zero group of the 1960's. François Morellet has worked with various materials (fabric, tape, neon, walls, etc) and has investigated the use of the exhibition space in terms similar to artists of installation art and environmental art. He has gained an international reputation, especially in Germany and France, and his work has been commissioned for public and private collections in Switzerland, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States.

Sotheby's continues with its focus on minimal post modern works after the highly successful ZERO art auction which took place in London on February 10th 2010. The above works will be up for auction at Sotheby's in Amsterdam on March 8th 2010. The exhibition in Amsterdam opens on March 1st 2010 at 10AM. All these artworks are from exceptional quality and completely fresh to the market. Part of the Bat Artventure Collection formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection. The Peter Stuyvesant Collection started as a daring experiment with art in a production company in the Netherlands, in the early - 1960s. The collection is the largest collection of Post War and Contemporary Art ever to come at auction in the Netherlands. In the late 1950s Alexander Orlow, the Managing Director of Turmac Tobacco, put his love for abstract art to industrial use. He wanted to improve the working environment of his dedicated employees, he did this by building a world-class collection of large, colourful contemporary works specifically chosen to be shown in the factories above the machinery and so provide inspiration and stimulation. By 1961, Orlow appointed a succession of highly respected advisors out of the museum world and gave them all a simple brief and a free hand. The criteria for the collection were that the works should be large in scale, bold in imagery and by artists of international standing.