Orthogonales
1932
27 x 21 cm
Pencil and watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
Literature:
Hélion y la Travesia de la Abstraccion, del 5 al 27 Diciembre de 1992, Sala Amos Salvador, Logroño, Spain
Exposition avec Hélion, J. Gonzales et J.Torres Garcia
Catalog n° 4 reproduit page 15
Exhibited:
Hélion y la Travesia de la Abstraccion, del 5 al 27 Diciembre de 1992, Sala Amos Salvador, Logroño, Spain
Jean Hélion, Galerie Gérard Piltzer, Paris, 1997
Jean Hélion, Mayor Gallery, London, 1998
French painter and poet Jean Hélion was born in 1904 in Couterne, France.
Helion started out as a figurative painter In the beginning of his career. In the late 1920s he moved more and more to abstraction under the influence of Torres-Garcia in the style of the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. In 1930 Hélion joined the French Art Concret movement. In 1939 he breaks with abstraction and starts working figuratively again. 'Orthogonales' is a beautiful and rare example of the early abstract work of Jean Hélion.