Daniel Buren: A Tiger Cannot Change Its Stripes / A Triptych, Museumcultuur Strombeek, Ghent (January 9 – February 10, 2016)
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Simon Hantaï (1922 – 2008) is a French painter of Hungarian origin, whose work is one of the major contributions to abstract art in the 20th century. He showed a passion for art from an early age, and undertook academic training at the Budapest School of Fine Arts, notably with Judit Reigl, whom he later met again in Paris. This institution, then marked by traditional currents and the influence of European avant-gardes, played a decisive role in his initial artistic education. During the Second World War, Hantaï, opposed to the…
Simon Hantaï (1922 – 2008) is a French painter of Hungarian origin, whose work is one of the major contributions to abstract art in the 20th century. He showed a passion for art from an early age, and undertook academic training at the Budapest School of Fine Arts, notably with Judit Reigl, whom he later met again in Paris. This institution, then marked by traditional currents and the influence of European avant-gardes, played a decisive role in his initial artistic education. During the Second World War, Hantaï, opposed to the Nazi occupation of Hungary, became politically active and joined the Magyar Communist Party.
In 1948, in the wake of growing political tensions in his homeland, Hantaï went into exile in France, a country that would become his adopted home and the principal setting for his work. Arriving in Paris, he discovered the artistic effervescence of the post-war years, marked by exchanges between the European avant-garde and the growing influence of American culture. He was particularly influenced by Surrealism and André Breton, whom he met in 1952 and whose concept of psychic automatism had a profound effect on his early work. Hantaï soon distanced himself from this movement, however, seeking a personal path beyond the “Bretonian” prescriptions.
Exile also marked a turning point in his relationship with identity. Although he retained links with his Hungarian heritage, his work reflected a gradual integration into the French artistic milieu, which he helped to enrich with an innovative approach. It was in the 1960s that Hantaï invented his most famous technique: “folding as a method”. This involves manipulating the unstretched canvas according to a meticulous pattern of folds and knots, before applying paint to this new, almost sculptural surface. When the canvas is then stretched, fragments of unprimed material appear, revealing painted areas and white reserves. This approach became the basis of his most emblematic series, such as “Mariales” and “Manteaux de la Vierge” (1960-1964), “Meuns” (1967-1968), “Études” (1968-71), “Blancs” (1973-74) and “Tabulas ” (1972-1976). These works, characterized by their complex texture and visual rhythm, explore the relationship between chance and control, between artistic gesture and mechanical process.
Influenced by American Action Painting, notably Jackson Pollock, as well as by European avant-gardes such as Art Informel, Hantaï differs from them in his deliberate withdrawal from bodily gesture. Unlike Pollock, who physically engages his whole body in painting, Hantaï delegates part of the creative process to folding, seeking to liberate painting from its conventions, exploring new ways of expressing the very essence of the creative act. His work, both rigorous and poetic, remains an essential reference for understanding the evolution of 20th-century abstract art.
Hantaï gradually withdrew from the art scene in the 1980s, even refusing to exhibit for almost two decades. However, his influence remains immense, notably on artists such as Daniel Buren and the “Supports/Surfaces” movement, who see him as one of the instigators of abstract and process art, since the medium and the formal process become actors and creators of the motif in his canvases. Hantaï made a remarkable comeback in 1998 with an exhibition at Galerie Jean Fournier, followed by a first posthumous retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2013. Finally, in 2022, the Fondation Louis Vuitton is also devoting a major retrospective to him to mark the centenary of his birth, confirming the major impact he had on the history of twentieth-century painting.
Simon Hantaï. L’exposition du centenaire “, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (May 18 to August 29, 2022)
Simon Hantaï : Par où on ne sait pas“, Musée des Beaux-arts de Rouen, Rouen (January 17, 2020 to April 27, 2020)
Simon Hantaï. Les noirs du blanc, les blancs du noir, Gagosian, Le Bourget (October 13, 2019 to June 27, 2020)
Simon Hantaï – Paris, 1948-1955, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (December 14 – January 20, 2018)
Simon Hantaï, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (June 22 – March 5, 2016)
Simon Hantaï – Pliage: the first decade, Mnuchin Gallery, New York (April 28 – June 26, 2015)
Simon Hantaï – Meuns, Guttklein Fine Art, Paris (May 13 – July 9, 2015)
Simon Hantaï – Regard sur quelques Tabulas, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 15 – November 28, 2015)
Simon Hantaï – Blancs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (October 22 – December 5, 2015)
Simon Hantaï, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, Rome, (February 12 – May 11, 2014)
Hantaï, Ludwig Mczeum, Budapest (May 9 – August 31, 2014)
Go Figure/Ground, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York (April 11 – December 21, 2013)
Simon Hantaï, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (May 8 – June 15, 2013)
Simon Hantaï, Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1, Paris, (May 22 – September 9, 2013)
Simon Hantaï, Panses 1964-1965, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 11 – November 24, 2012)
Simon Hantaï, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (March 19 – April 24) ; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (April 8 – May 22, 2010)
Simon Hantaï : Not for sale in New York, Paul Rodgers/9W, 27, New York (April – September 30, 2010)
Simon Hantaï, Judit Reigl, Galerie Malingue, Paris (June 5 – 30, 2007)
Simon Hantaï, François Rouan : “Conversation”, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (March 24 – April 30, 2005)
Signe-Geste-Écriture, Degottex / Hantaï, Galerie L’Or du temps, Paris (October 2 – November 6, 2004)
Simon Hantaï / Michel Parmentier, from the collections of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (January 17 – March 19, 2001)
Four digital prints on canvas by Simon Hantaï, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, (May 11 – June 2011)
Hantaï, Collections of the Musée national d’art moderne-Centre Pompidou and other French public collections, Musée d’art moderne, Céret (June 21 – September 27, 1998)
Donation Simon Hantaï », Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (1997)
Simon Hantaï, FIAC, Galerie Katia-Granoff, Paris (October 1994)
Simon Hantaï, Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris (October 28 – December 12, 1992)
Présentation d’œuvres de Hantaï, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (1988)
Simon Hantaï, French Institute of Scotland, Edinburgh (August 11 – September 29, 1985) ; Cultural Delegation, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (October 1 – 17, 1985) ; French Institute of the United Kingdom, London (October 21 – November 15, 1985)
Simon Hantaï, Paintings 1960-1980, Kasahara Gallery, Osaka (February 8 – 27, 1982)
Simon Hantaï, Tabulas 1980-1981, André Emmerich Gallery, New York (February 6 – 27, 1982)
Simon Hantaï, 40th Venice Biennale, French Pavilion, Venice (June 13 – September 12, 1982)
Tabulas lilas, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 17 – July 17, 1982)
Tabulas, suite récente, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 14 – November 15, 1980)
Hantaï : Tabulas, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaeck (April – 15 May, 1978)
Hantaï: Peintures et ensemble variables 1976-1977, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 21 – mid-November, 1977)
Hantaï, retrospective, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 26 – September 13, 1976)
Hantaï 1974, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 12 – July 12, 1975)
Hantaï: Paintings and Watercolors 1971-1975, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (October – November, 1975)
Hantaï: Blancs I, mainly five paintings from summer 1973, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (February 22 – March 9, 1974)
Hantaï: Blancs II, later works, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (March 13 – April 6, 1974)
Hantaï“, Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Étienne (November – December 1973)
Watercolors, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (April 14 – May 13, 1972)
Simon Hantaï. Le Pliage comme méthode: regards sur 10 années, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 22 – July 1971)
Études pour un mur, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (April 1970)
Hantaï: Paintings 1960-1970, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (October-November 1970)
Simon Hantaï: Pour Pierre Reverdy. Études, January-May 1969, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (June 19-July 26, 1969)
Presentation of Études, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (October 1969)
Hantaï: Peintures récentes, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (May 15 – June 30, 1968)
Hantaï, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (December 21 1968 – March 16, 1969)
Simon Hantaï: Peintures 1960-1967, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (June 1967)
Simon Hantaï: 138 small-format paintings. Jalons des années 1962-1965, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (June 2 – July 6, 1965)
Simon Hantaï: 12 recent large-format paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (September 22 – October 30, 1965)
Simon Hantaï : Peintures mariales, Galerie Kléber, Paris (May 25 – June 1962)
Simon Hantaï: Peintures sur papier antérieures à 1955 et petits formats, Galerie Kléber-Jean Fournier, Paris (March 1961)
Simon Hantaï: Peintures récentes. Souvenir de l’avenir, Galerie Kléber, Paris (March 3 – 30, 1958)
Simon Hantaï, Georges Mathieu. Les Cérémonies commémoratives de la condamnation de Siger de Brabant, Galerie Kléber, Paris (March 7 – 27, 1957)
Sexe-Prime. Hommage à Jean-Pierre Brisset et autres peintures de Simon Hantaï, Galerie Kléber-Jean Fournier, Paris (May 11 – June 9, 1956)
Simon Hantaï, Galerie À L’Étoile scellée, Paris (January 1953)
Les voies de l’abstraction: de Kandinsky à Reigl, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (February 14 – May 19, 2025)
Chez Dina Vierny – by Marie Anne Derville, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (October 18 – October 28, 2023)
Daniel Buren: A Tiger Cannot Change Its Stripes / A Triptych, Museumcultuur Strombeek, Ghent (January 9 – February 10, 2016)
Simon Hantaï, Pierre Buraglio, Michel Parmentier, Kacha Legrand, Florindo Nanni, Adrien Vescovi, (IM)MATERIEL, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (2014)
Disconnected, Bishop | Hantaï | Marioni, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York (November 6, 2014 – July 31, 2015)
James Bishop, Jean Degottex, Simon Hantaï : major works, Guttklein Fine Art, Paris (December 20, 2014 – January 2015)
Hantaï, Hartung, Soulages, Tàpies, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (November 20, 2013 – January 18, 2014)
Move, unfold, discover. French experiments 1960/1999: Simon Hantaï, Martin Barré, Marc Devade, Jean Degottex, Michel Parmentier, Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Lille (March 3 – June 17, 2012)
Modernism at the fringes, Colgate University, Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY (February 15 – July 15, 2011)
Le Surréalisme, organized by Centre Pompidou, The National Art Center, Tokyo (February 9 – May 15, 2011)
Surrealism The Poetry of Dreams from the Collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Moderne Art, Brisbane (June 11 – October 3, 2011)
L’Aventure de l’art abstrait : Charles Estienne critique d’art des années 50, Musée des beaux-arts, Brest (July 13 – November 7, 2011)
Masterpieces, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (May 12, 2010 – August 29, 2011)
Ils ont regardé Matisse : une réception abstraite États-Unis/Europe 1948-1968, Musée départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis (March 15 – June 14, 2009)
Hypnos. Images et inconscients en Europe 1900-1949, Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Lille (March 14 – July 12, 2009)
Traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 7 – August 11, 2008) ; Haus der Kunst, Munich (September 19, 2008 – January 11, 2009)
La Couleur toujours recommencée: hommage à Jean Fournier, marchand à Paris 1922-2006), Musée Fabre, Montpellier (February 4 – May 6, 2007)
Paris du monde entier: artistes étrangers à Paris, 1900-2005, organized by the Centre Pompidou, National Art Center, Tokyo (February 7 – May 7, 2007)
Paris, 1945-1956. L’envolée lyrique, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (April 26 – August 6, 2006)
Le Noir est une couleur, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (June 15 – November 5, 2006)
Peintures / Malerei, Martin-Gropius-Bau and Embassy of France in Berlin, Berlin (September 23 – November 12, 2006)
Judit Reigl“, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (October 5 – November 13, 2005)
Shadows and Lights. Four Centuries of French Painting, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (December 9, 2004 – February 27, 2005) ; Royal Castle, Warsaw (March 23 – June 8, 2005) ; Museum of Fine Arts, Bucharest (July 16 – October 2, 2005)
As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University of Columbus, Columbus (May 12 – August 12, 2001)
Parade 1901-2001, Collections du Centre Pompidou/Musée national d’art moderne, Pavillon Lucas Nogueira Garcia, São Paulo (October 2, 2001 – January 28, 2002)
La Peinture après l’abstraction, 1955-1975, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (May 20 – September 19, 1999)
Made in France 1947-1997: Présentation des collections permanentes, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (January 30 – September 29, 1997)
L’Empreinte, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (February 19 – May 19, 1997)
Abstractions France 1940/1965 : Peintures et dessins des Collections du Musée national d’art moderne, Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar (October 17 1977 – May 3, 1988)
La Dimension du corps 1920-1980 : un choix des collections du Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, Musée national d’art moderne, Tokyo (March 5 – May 19, 1996) ; Musée national d’art moderne, Kyoto (June 4 – August 18, 1996)
Manifeste: une histoire parallèle 1960-1990, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (September 23 – December 13, 1993)
Exhibition Rosemarie Castoro, Daniel Dezeuze, Simon Hantaï, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris (September 7 – October 2 1993)
Pariser Ungarn in Berlin: Simon Hantaï, Joseph Kadar, Institut français, Berlin (October 21 – November 26 1993) ; Maison de la Hongrie, Berlin (October 21 – December 16 1993)
Das offene Bild, Aspekte der Moderne in Europa nach 1945, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste (April 8 – May 31, 1993)
L’Art actif, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam (1992)
Le Geste de l’idée, Musée d’art moderne, Réfectoire des Jacobins, Toulouse (June 26 – September 15, 1992)
Les Nymphéas avant et après, Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris (October 27, 1992 – January 25, 1993)
Le grand émerveillement pour le sud : Barré, Buraglio, Bustamante... , Château de Villeneuve – Fondation Émile Hugues, Vence (December 5, 1992 – March 5, 1993)
André Breton, la beauté convulsive, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (April 25 – August 26, 1991) ; André Breton y el Surrealismo, Museo nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (October 1 – December 2, 1991)
La peinture abstraite dans les collections du Fonds régional d’art contemporain Bretagne, Le Quartier, Centre d’Art de Quimper, Quimper (May 31 – August 31, 1991)
Too French, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (November 16, 1991 – February 19, 1992) ; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (April 4 – June 7, 1992)
L’Art en France : un siècle d’inventions, du fauvisme aux années quatre-vingt, Pushkin Museum, Moscow (April 17 – May 9, 1989) ; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (June 1 – September 1, 1989)
Liberté & Égalité – Freiheit und Gleichheit – Wiederholung und Abweichung in der neueren französischen Kunst, Museum Folkwang, Essen (June 4 – August 27 1989) ; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur (September 24 – November 12 1989)
Donations Daniel Cordier : le regard d’un amateur, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (November 14, 1989 – January 21, 1990)
The 50s, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (June 30 – October 15, 1988)
L’Époque, la mode, la morale, la passion – Aspects de l’art d’aujourd’hui, 1977-1987, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 21 – August 17, 1987)
“Pictura Loquens” – 25 years of art in France, organized by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Centre national d’art contemporain, Nice (February 14 – April 14, 1986).
The late 60s. D’une contestation l’autre, Espace niçois d’art et de culture, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice (July 6 – September 28, 1986)
Art français du XXe siècle, Museum of Modern Art, Seoul (August 26 – October 31, 1986)
Anciens et nouveaux: choix d’œuvres acquises par l’État ou avec sa participation de 1981 à 1985, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (November 5, 1985 – February 3, 1986)
Empreinte – Geste – Surface. Le Musée décalé, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (June 10 – September 14, 1983)
Nœuds et ligatures, Fondation nationales des arts graphiques et plastiques, Paris (June 21 – August 28, 1983)
Formes vivantes : modernismens tradition i Frankrike 1951-1983, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori (December 4 – 26, 1983) ; Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki (January 5 – 29, 1984)
Twelve Contemporary French Artists, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (1982)
Paris 1960-1980: Panorama de l’art français, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna (May 14 – July 25, 1982)
The Subject of Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (October 10 – November 28, 1982) ; Arnolfini, Bristol (December 4 1982 – January 15, 1983) ; Cartwright Hall, Bradford (January 29 – March 13, 1983)
37 Aktuella Konstnarer fran Frankrike, LiljevaJchs Konsthall, Stockholm (February 27 – April 26, 1981)
Bram Van Velde, Judit Reigl, Simon Hantaï, Antoni Tàpies, J.-P. Pincemin, Patrick Caillière, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers (April-May 1981)
Paris-Paris, 1937-1957, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 28-November 2, 1981)
L’Amérique aux Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris (March 13 – April 13, 1980)
Avatars, 1950-1980 – 120 works, questions, transformations and traces, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (summer-September 1980)
New trends in French painting, Neue Galerie, Graz (October 18-November 16, 1980)
Tendances de l’art en France 1968-1978/9-1. Les partis-pris de Marcelin Pleynet, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (September 13 – October 21, 1979)
Henri Matisse and Contemporary French Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gand (October 7 – November 20, 1978)
3 collections… 3 cities: the avant-garde, 1960-1976, Musée Cantini, Marseille (February – March 1977) ; Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble (April-May 1977) ; Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Étienne (summer 1977)
Rosc ’77, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (August 21 – October 30, 1977)
1960-1975, French art panorama, Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery, Ankara (April 2 – 15, 1976); Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts Hall, Istanbul (April 21 – May 5, 1976)
Four Painters: Faucher, Hantaï, Rouan, Viallat, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (April 9 – 26, 1974)
Paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (November 13 – December 12, 1973)
60-72: twelve years of contemporary art in France, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (May 17 – September 19, 1972)
À la rencontre de Matisse, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (summer 1969)
Exhibition of recent acquisitions from the CNAC Collections, Centre national d’art et de culture, Paris (September 1969)
L’Art vivant, 1965-1968, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (April 13 – June 30, 1968)
Peintres européens d’aujourd’hui / European Painters Today , Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (September 27 – November 17, 1968) ; Jewish Museum, New York (January 21 – March 16, 1969) ; Smithsonian Institution, Washington (April 9 – June 1, 1969) ; Museum of Contemporary Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Chicago (July 5 – September 8, 1969) ; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (1969) ; Art Institute, Dayton (1969)
Painting in France 1900-1967, National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1968) ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1968) ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1968) ; The Art Institute, Chicago (1968) ; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (1968)
10 ans d’art vivant, 1955-1965, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (May 3 – June 23, 1967)
Climat, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble (July-September 1966)
Exhibition in the form of a tryptique, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (July- September 1966)
Le Musée dans l’Usine – Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (September 28 – November 14, 1966)
Promises kept, Musée Galliera, Paris (September 7 – October 11, 1965)
Guggenheim International Award 1964, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (January – March 1964)
L’Écriture du peintre. Degottex, Georges, Giacometti, Hantaï, Hartung, Mathieu, Sonderbord, Tobey, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (May 13 – June 4, 1964)
The Pittsburgh International, Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (October 30, 1964 – January 10, 1965)
Jean Degottex, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Jean Messagier, Joan Mitchell, ten paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (December 1964)
Antagonismes, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (February 1960)
Itinéraire d’un jeune collectionneur 1948-1958, Galerie Kléber, Paris (October 14 – November 1959)
The Exploration of Form: Paintings by René Guitte, Simon Hantaï, Asger Jorn, Antonio Tàpies, William Turnbull, Arthur Tooth Gallery, London (January 21 – February 5, 1958)
Benrath, Degottex, Dugue, Duvillier, Fautrier, Hantaï, Laubiès, Loubchansky, Mathieu, Michaux, Tobey, Van Haardt, Galerie Kléber, Paris (May 13 – June 2, 1958)
Old and new paintings by Marcelle Loubchansky, Degottex and Hantaï, Galerie Kléber, Paris (February 1957)
Toiles nouvelles 2 : Degottex, Francis, Hantaï, Hartung, Loubchansky, Mathieu, Michaux, Pollock, Reigl, Riopelle, Tobey, Wols, Galerie Kléber, Paris (September 26 – October 20, 1957)
Tensions: Georges, Viseux, Reigl, Hantaï, Degottex, Galerie René Drouin, Paris (July 6 – early October 1956)
Judit Reigl, Galerie Kléber, Paris (December 12 1956 – January 5 1957)
Younger European Painters, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (December 2, 1953 – February 21, 1954)
Ferenc Fiedler, Simon Hantaï, Judit Reigl, György Rózsa, Ádám Sjöholm, Fórum Klub, Budapest (1947)
Simon Hantaï (1922 – 2008) is a French painter of Hungarian origin, whose work is one of the major contributions to abstract art in the 20th century. He showed a passion for art from an early age, and undertook academic training at the Budapest School of Fine Arts, notably with Judit Reigl, whom he later met again in Paris. This institution, then marked by traditional currents and the influence of European avant-gardes, played a decisive role in his initial artistic education. During the Second World War, Hantaï, opposed to the Nazi occupation of Hungary, became politically active and joined the Magyar Communist Party.
In 1948, in the wake of growing political tensions in his homeland, Hantaï went into exile in France, a country that would become his adopted home and the principal setting for his work. Arriving in Paris, he discovered the artistic effervescence of the post-war years, marked by exchanges between the European avant-garde and the growing influence of American culture. He was particularly influenced by Surrealism and André Breton, whom he met in 1952 and whose concept of psychic automatism had a profound effect on his early work. Hantaï soon distanced himself from this movement, however, seeking a personal path beyond the “Bretonian” prescriptions.
Exile also marked a turning point in his relationship with identity. Although he retained links with his Hungarian heritage, his work reflected a gradual integration into the French artistic milieu, which he helped to enrich with an innovative approach. It was in the 1960s that Hantaï invented his most famous technique: “folding as a method”. This involves manipulating the unstretched canvas according to a meticulous pattern of folds and knots, before applying paint to this new, almost sculptural surface. When the canvas is then stretched, fragments of unprimed material appear, revealing painted areas and white reserves. This approach became the basis of his most emblematic series, such as “Mariales” and “Manteaux de la Vierge” (1960-1964), “Meuns” (1967-1968), “Études” (1968-71), “Blancs” (1973-74) and “Tabulas ” (1972-1976). These works, characterized by their complex texture and visual rhythm, explore the relationship between chance and control, between artistic gesture and mechanical process.
Influenced by American Action Painting, notably Jackson Pollock, as well as by European avant-gardes such as Art Informel, Hantaï differs from them in his deliberate withdrawal from bodily gesture. Unlike Pollock, who physically engages his whole body in painting, Hantaï delegates part of the creative process to folding, seeking to liberate painting from its conventions, exploring new ways of expressing the very essence of the creative act. His work, both rigorous and poetic, remains an essential reference for understanding the evolution of 20th-century abstract art.
Hantaï gradually withdrew from the art scene in the 1980s, even refusing to exhibit for almost two decades. However, his influence remains immense, notably on artists such as Daniel Buren and the “Supports/Surfaces” movement, who see him as one of the instigators of abstract and process art, since the medium and the formal process become actors and creators of the motif in his canvases. Hantaï made a remarkable comeback in 1998 with an exhibition at Galerie Jean Fournier, followed by a first posthumous retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2013. Finally, in 2022, the Fondation Louis Vuitton is also devoting a major retrospective to him to mark the centenary of his birth, confirming the major impact he had on the history of twentieth-century painting.
Simon Hantaï. L’exposition du centenaire “, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (May 18 to August 29, 2022)
Simon Hantaï : Par où on ne sait pas“, Musée des Beaux-arts de Rouen, Rouen (January 17, 2020 to April 27, 2020)
Simon Hantaï. Les noirs du blanc, les blancs du noir, Gagosian, Le Bourget (October 13, 2019 to June 27, 2020)
Simon Hantaï – Paris, 1948-1955, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (December 14 – January 20, 2018)
Simon Hantaï, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (June 22 – March 5, 2016)
Simon Hantaï – Pliage: the first decade, Mnuchin Gallery, New York (April 28 – June 26, 2015)
Simon Hantaï – Meuns, Guttklein Fine Art, Paris (May 13 – July 9, 2015)
Simon Hantaï – Regard sur quelques Tabulas, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 15 – November 28, 2015)
Simon Hantaï – Blancs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (October 22 – December 5, 2015)
Simon Hantaï, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, Rome, (February 12 – May 11, 2014)
Hantaï, Ludwig Mczeum, Budapest (May 9 – August 31, 2014)
Go Figure/Ground, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York (April 11 – December 21, 2013)
Simon Hantaï, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (May 8 – June 15, 2013)
Simon Hantaï, Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1, Paris, (May 22 – September 9, 2013)
Simon Hantaï, Panses 1964-1965, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 11 – November 24, 2012)
Simon Hantaï, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (March 19 – April 24) ; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (April 8 – May 22, 2010)
Simon Hantaï : Not for sale in New York, Paul Rodgers/9W, 27, New York (April – September 30, 2010)
Simon Hantaï, Judit Reigl, Galerie Malingue, Paris (June 5 – 30, 2007)
Simon Hantaï, François Rouan : “Conversation”, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (March 24 – April 30, 2005)
Signe-Geste-Écriture, Degottex / Hantaï, Galerie L’Or du temps, Paris (October 2 – November 6, 2004)
Simon Hantaï / Michel Parmentier, from the collections of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (January 17 – March 19, 2001)
Four digital prints on canvas by Simon Hantaï, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, (May 11 – June 2011)
Hantaï, Collections of the Musée national d’art moderne-Centre Pompidou and other French public collections, Musée d’art moderne, Céret (June 21 – September 27, 1998)
Donation Simon Hantaï », Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (1997)
Simon Hantaï, FIAC, Galerie Katia-Granoff, Paris (October 1994)
Simon Hantaï, Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris (October 28 – December 12, 1992)
Présentation d’œuvres de Hantaï, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (1988)
Simon Hantaï, French Institute of Scotland, Edinburgh (August 11 – September 29, 1985) ; Cultural Delegation, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (October 1 – 17, 1985) ; French Institute of the United Kingdom, London (October 21 – November 15, 1985)
Simon Hantaï, Paintings 1960-1980, Kasahara Gallery, Osaka (February 8 – 27, 1982)
Simon Hantaï, Tabulas 1980-1981, André Emmerich Gallery, New York (February 6 – 27, 1982)
Simon Hantaï, 40th Venice Biennale, French Pavilion, Venice (June 13 – September 12, 1982)
Tabulas lilas, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 17 – July 17, 1982)
Tabulas, suite récente, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 14 – November 15, 1980)
Hantaï : Tabulas, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaeck (April – 15 May, 1978)
Hantaï: Peintures et ensemble variables 1976-1977, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 21 – mid-November, 1977)
Hantaï, retrospective, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 26 – September 13, 1976)
Hantaï 1974, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 12 – July 12, 1975)
Hantaï: Paintings and Watercolors 1971-1975, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (October – November, 1975)
Hantaï: Blancs I, mainly five paintings from summer 1973, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (February 22 – March 9, 1974)
Hantaï: Blancs II, later works, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (March 13 – April 6, 1974)
Hantaï“, Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Étienne (November – December 1973)
Watercolors, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (April 14 – May 13, 1972)
Simon Hantaï. Le Pliage comme méthode: regards sur 10 années, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 22 – July 1971)
Études pour un mur, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (April 1970)
Hantaï: Paintings 1960-1970, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (October-November 1970)
Simon Hantaï: Pour Pierre Reverdy. Études, January-May 1969, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (June 19-July 26, 1969)
Presentation of Études, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (October 1969)
Hantaï: Peintures récentes, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (May 15 – June 30, 1968)
Hantaï, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (December 21 1968 – March 16, 1969)
Simon Hantaï: Peintures 1960-1967, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (June 1967)
Simon Hantaï: 138 small-format paintings. Jalons des années 1962-1965, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (June 2 – July 6, 1965)
Simon Hantaï: 12 recent large-format paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (September 22 – October 30, 1965)
Simon Hantaï : Peintures mariales, Galerie Kléber, Paris (May 25 – June 1962)
Simon Hantaï: Peintures sur papier antérieures à 1955 et petits formats, Galerie Kléber-Jean Fournier, Paris (March 1961)
Simon Hantaï: Peintures récentes. Souvenir de l’avenir, Galerie Kléber, Paris (March 3 – 30, 1958)
Simon Hantaï, Georges Mathieu. Les Cérémonies commémoratives de la condamnation de Siger de Brabant, Galerie Kléber, Paris (March 7 – 27, 1957)
Sexe-Prime. Hommage à Jean-Pierre Brisset et autres peintures de Simon Hantaï, Galerie Kléber-Jean Fournier, Paris (May 11 – June 9, 1956)
Simon Hantaï, Galerie À L’Étoile scellée, Paris (January 1953)
Les voies de l’abstraction: de Kandinsky à Reigl, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (February 14 – May 19, 2025)
Chez Dina Vierny – by Marie Anne Derville, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (October 18 – October 28, 2023)
Daniel Buren: A Tiger Cannot Change Its Stripes / A Triptych, Museumcultuur Strombeek, Ghent (January 9 – February 10, 2016)
Simon Hantaï, Pierre Buraglio, Michel Parmentier, Kacha Legrand, Florindo Nanni, Adrien Vescovi, (IM)MATERIEL, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (2014)
Disconnected, Bishop | Hantaï | Marioni, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York (November 6, 2014 – July 31, 2015)
James Bishop, Jean Degottex, Simon Hantaï : major works, Guttklein Fine Art, Paris (December 20, 2014 – January 2015)
Hantaï, Hartung, Soulages, Tàpies, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (November 20, 2013 – January 18, 2014)
Move, unfold, discover. French experiments 1960/1999: Simon Hantaï, Martin Barré, Marc Devade, Jean Degottex, Michel Parmentier, Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Lille (March 3 – June 17, 2012)
Modernism at the fringes, Colgate University, Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY (February 15 – July 15, 2011)
Le Surréalisme, organized by Centre Pompidou, The National Art Center, Tokyo (February 9 – May 15, 2011)
Surrealism The Poetry of Dreams from the Collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Moderne Art, Brisbane (June 11 – October 3, 2011)
L’Aventure de l’art abstrait : Charles Estienne critique d’art des années 50, Musée des beaux-arts, Brest (July 13 – November 7, 2011)
Masterpieces, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (May 12, 2010 – August 29, 2011)
Ils ont regardé Matisse : une réception abstraite États-Unis/Europe 1948-1968, Musée départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis (March 15 – June 14, 2009)
Hypnos. Images et inconscients en Europe 1900-1949, Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Lille (March 14 – July 12, 2009)
Traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 7 – August 11, 2008) ; Haus der Kunst, Munich (September 19, 2008 – January 11, 2009)
La Couleur toujours recommencée: hommage à Jean Fournier, marchand à Paris 1922-2006), Musée Fabre, Montpellier (February 4 – May 6, 2007)
Paris du monde entier: artistes étrangers à Paris, 1900-2005, organized by the Centre Pompidou, National Art Center, Tokyo (February 7 – May 7, 2007)
Paris, 1945-1956. L’envolée lyrique, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (April 26 – August 6, 2006)
Le Noir est une couleur, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (June 15 – November 5, 2006)
Peintures / Malerei, Martin-Gropius-Bau and Embassy of France in Berlin, Berlin (September 23 – November 12, 2006)
Judit Reigl“, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (October 5 – November 13, 2005)
Shadows and Lights. Four Centuries of French Painting, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (December 9, 2004 – February 27, 2005) ; Royal Castle, Warsaw (March 23 – June 8, 2005) ; Museum of Fine Arts, Bucharest (July 16 – October 2, 2005)
As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University of Columbus, Columbus (May 12 – August 12, 2001)
Parade 1901-2001, Collections du Centre Pompidou/Musée national d’art moderne, Pavillon Lucas Nogueira Garcia, São Paulo (October 2, 2001 – January 28, 2002)
La Peinture après l’abstraction, 1955-1975, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (May 20 – September 19, 1999)
Made in France 1947-1997: Présentation des collections permanentes, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (January 30 – September 29, 1997)
L’Empreinte, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (February 19 – May 19, 1997)
Abstractions France 1940/1965 : Peintures et dessins des Collections du Musée national d’art moderne, Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar (October 17 1977 – May 3, 1988)
La Dimension du corps 1920-1980 : un choix des collections du Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, Musée national d’art moderne, Tokyo (March 5 – May 19, 1996) ; Musée national d’art moderne, Kyoto (June 4 – August 18, 1996)
Manifeste: une histoire parallèle 1960-1990, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (September 23 – December 13, 1993)
Exhibition Rosemarie Castoro, Daniel Dezeuze, Simon Hantaï, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris (September 7 – October 2 1993)
Pariser Ungarn in Berlin: Simon Hantaï, Joseph Kadar, Institut français, Berlin (October 21 – November 26 1993) ; Maison de la Hongrie, Berlin (October 21 – December 16 1993)
Das offene Bild, Aspekte der Moderne in Europa nach 1945, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste (April 8 – May 31, 1993)
L’Art actif, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam (1992)
Le Geste de l’idée, Musée d’art moderne, Réfectoire des Jacobins, Toulouse (June 26 – September 15, 1992)
Les Nymphéas avant et après, Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris (October 27, 1992 – January 25, 1993)
Le grand émerveillement pour le sud : Barré, Buraglio, Bustamante... , Château de Villeneuve – Fondation Émile Hugues, Vence (December 5, 1992 – March 5, 1993)
André Breton, la beauté convulsive, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (April 25 – August 26, 1991) ; André Breton y el Surrealismo, Museo nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (October 1 – December 2, 1991)
La peinture abstraite dans les collections du Fonds régional d’art contemporain Bretagne, Le Quartier, Centre d’Art de Quimper, Quimper (May 31 – August 31, 1991)
Too French, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (November 16, 1991 – February 19, 1992) ; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (April 4 – June 7, 1992)
L’Art en France : un siècle d’inventions, du fauvisme aux années quatre-vingt, Pushkin Museum, Moscow (April 17 – May 9, 1989) ; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (June 1 – September 1, 1989)
Liberté & Égalité – Freiheit und Gleichheit – Wiederholung und Abweichung in der neueren französischen Kunst, Museum Folkwang, Essen (June 4 – August 27 1989) ; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur (September 24 – November 12 1989)
Donations Daniel Cordier : le regard d’un amateur, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (November 14, 1989 – January 21, 1990)
The 50s, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (June 30 – October 15, 1988)
L’Époque, la mode, la morale, la passion – Aspects de l’art d’aujourd’hui, 1977-1987, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 21 – August 17, 1987)
“Pictura Loquens” – 25 years of art in France, organized by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Centre national d’art contemporain, Nice (February 14 – April 14, 1986).
The late 60s. D’une contestation l’autre, Espace niçois d’art et de culture, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice (July 6 – September 28, 1986)
Art français du XXe siècle, Museum of Modern Art, Seoul (August 26 – October 31, 1986)
Anciens et nouveaux: choix d’œuvres acquises par l’État ou avec sa participation de 1981 à 1985, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (November 5, 1985 – February 3, 1986)
Empreinte – Geste – Surface. Le Musée décalé, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (June 10 – September 14, 1983)
Nœuds et ligatures, Fondation nationales des arts graphiques et plastiques, Paris (June 21 – August 28, 1983)
Formes vivantes : modernismens tradition i Frankrike 1951-1983, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori (December 4 – 26, 1983) ; Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki (January 5 – 29, 1984)
Twelve Contemporary French Artists, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (1982)
Paris 1960-1980: Panorama de l’art français, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna (May 14 – July 25, 1982)
The Subject of Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (October 10 – November 28, 1982) ; Arnolfini, Bristol (December 4 1982 – January 15, 1983) ; Cartwright Hall, Bradford (January 29 – March 13, 1983)
37 Aktuella Konstnarer fran Frankrike, LiljevaJchs Konsthall, Stockholm (February 27 – April 26, 1981)
Bram Van Velde, Judit Reigl, Simon Hantaï, Antoni Tàpies, J.-P. Pincemin, Patrick Caillière, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers (April-May 1981)
Paris-Paris, 1937-1957, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 28-November 2, 1981)
L’Amérique aux Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris (March 13 – April 13, 1980)
Avatars, 1950-1980 – 120 works, questions, transformations and traces, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (summer-September 1980)
New trends in French painting, Neue Galerie, Graz (October 18-November 16, 1980)
Tendances de l’art en France 1968-1978/9-1. Les partis-pris de Marcelin Pleynet, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (September 13 – October 21, 1979)
Henri Matisse and Contemporary French Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gand (October 7 – November 20, 1978)
3 collections… 3 cities: the avant-garde, 1960-1976, Musée Cantini, Marseille (February – March 1977) ; Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble (April-May 1977) ; Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Étienne (summer 1977)
Rosc ’77, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (August 21 – October 30, 1977)
1960-1975, French art panorama, Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery, Ankara (April 2 – 15, 1976); Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts Hall, Istanbul (April 21 – May 5, 1976)
Four Painters: Faucher, Hantaï, Rouan, Viallat, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (April 9 – 26, 1974)
Paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (November 13 – December 12, 1973)
60-72: twelve years of contemporary art in France, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (May 17 – September 19, 1972)
À la rencontre de Matisse, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (summer 1969)
Exhibition of recent acquisitions from the CNAC Collections, Centre national d’art et de culture, Paris (September 1969)
L’Art vivant, 1965-1968, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (April 13 – June 30, 1968)
Peintres européens d’aujourd’hui / European Painters Today , Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (September 27 – November 17, 1968) ; Jewish Museum, New York (January 21 – March 16, 1969) ; Smithsonian Institution, Washington (April 9 – June 1, 1969) ; Museum of Contemporary Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Chicago (July 5 – September 8, 1969) ; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (1969) ; Art Institute, Dayton (1969)
Painting in France 1900-1967, National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1968) ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1968) ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1968) ; The Art Institute, Chicago (1968) ; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (1968)
10 ans d’art vivant, 1955-1965, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (May 3 – June 23, 1967)
Climat, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble (July-September 1966)
Exhibition in the form of a tryptique, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (July- September 1966)
Le Musée dans l’Usine – Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (September 28 – November 14, 1966)
Promises kept, Musée Galliera, Paris (September 7 – October 11, 1965)
Guggenheim International Award 1964, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (January – March 1964)
L’Écriture du peintre. Degottex, Georges, Giacometti, Hantaï, Hartung, Mathieu, Sonderbord, Tobey, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (May 13 – June 4, 1964)
The Pittsburgh International, Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (October 30, 1964 – January 10, 1965)
Jean Degottex, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Jean Messagier, Joan Mitchell, ten paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (December 1964)
Antagonismes, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (February 1960)
Itinéraire d’un jeune collectionneur 1948-1958, Galerie Kléber, Paris (October 14 – November 1959)
The Exploration of Form: Paintings by René Guitte, Simon Hantaï, Asger Jorn, Antonio Tàpies, William Turnbull, Arthur Tooth Gallery, London (January 21 – February 5, 1958)
Benrath, Degottex, Dugue, Duvillier, Fautrier, Hantaï, Laubiès, Loubchansky, Mathieu, Michaux, Tobey, Van Haardt, Galerie Kléber, Paris (May 13 – June 2, 1958)
Old and new paintings by Marcelle Loubchansky, Degottex and Hantaï, Galerie Kléber, Paris (February 1957)
Toiles nouvelles 2 : Degottex, Francis, Hantaï, Hartung, Loubchansky, Mathieu, Michaux, Pollock, Reigl, Riopelle, Tobey, Wols, Galerie Kléber, Paris (September 26 – October 20, 1957)
Tensions: Georges, Viseux, Reigl, Hantaï, Degottex, Galerie René Drouin, Paris (July 6 – early October 1956)
Judit Reigl, Galerie Kléber, Paris (December 12 1956 – January 5 1957)
Younger European Painters, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (December 2, 1953 – February 21, 1954)
Ferenc Fiedler, Simon Hantaï, Judit Reigl, György Rózsa, Ádám Sjöholm, Fórum Klub, Budapest (1947)
Simon Hantaï (1922 – 2008) is a French painter of Hungarian origin, whose work is one of the major contributions to abstract art in the 20th century. He showed a passion for art from an early age, and undertook academic training at the Budapest School of Fine Arts, notably with Judit Reigl, whom he later met again in Paris. This institution, then marked by traditional currents and the influence of European avant-gardes, played a decisive role in his initial artistic education. During the Second World War, Hantaï, opposed to the…
Simon Hantaï (1922 – 2008) is a French painter of Hungarian origin, whose work is one of the major contributions to abstract art in the 20th century. He showed a passion for art from an early age, and undertook academic training at the Budapest School of Fine Arts, notably with Judit Reigl, whom he later met again in Paris. This institution, then marked by traditional currents and the influence of European avant-gardes, played a decisive role in his initial artistic education. During the Second World War, Hantaï, opposed to the Nazi occupation of Hungary, became politically active and joined the Magyar Communist Party.
In 1948, in the wake of growing political tensions in his homeland, Hantaï went into exile in France, a country that would become his adopted home and the principal setting for his work. Arriving in Paris, he discovered the artistic effervescence of the post-war years, marked by exchanges between the European avant-garde and the growing influence of American culture. He was particularly influenced by Surrealism and André Breton, whom he met in 1952 and whose concept of psychic automatism had a profound effect on his early work. Hantaï soon distanced himself from this movement, however, seeking a personal path beyond the “Bretonian” prescriptions.
Exile also marked a turning point in his relationship with identity. Although he retained links with his Hungarian heritage, his work reflected a gradual integration into the French artistic milieu, which he helped to enrich with an innovative approach. It was in the 1960s that Hantaï invented his most famous technique: “folding as a method”. This involves manipulating the unstretched canvas according to a meticulous pattern of folds and knots, before applying paint to this new, almost sculptural surface. When the canvas is then stretched, fragments of unprimed material appear, revealing painted areas and white reserves. This approach became the basis of his most emblematic series, such as “Mariales” and “Manteaux de la Vierge” (1960-1964), “Meuns” (1967-1968), “Études” (1968-71), “Blancs” (1973-74) and “Tabulas ” (1972-1976). These works, characterized by their complex texture and visual rhythm, explore the relationship between chance and control, between artistic gesture and mechanical process.
Influenced by American Action Painting, notably Jackson Pollock, as well as by European avant-gardes such as Art Informel, Hantaï differs from them in his deliberate withdrawal from bodily gesture. Unlike Pollock, who physically engages his whole body in painting, Hantaï delegates part of the creative process to folding, seeking to liberate painting from its conventions, exploring new ways of expressing the very essence of the creative act. His work, both rigorous and poetic, remains an essential reference for understanding the evolution of 20th-century abstract art.
Hantaï gradually withdrew from the art scene in the 1980s, even refusing to exhibit for almost two decades. However, his influence remains immense, notably on artists such as Daniel Buren and the “Supports/Surfaces” movement, who see him as one of the instigators of abstract and process art, since the medium and the formal process become actors and creators of the motif in his canvases. Hantaï made a remarkable comeback in 1998 with an exhibition at Galerie Jean Fournier, followed by a first posthumous retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2013. Finally, in 2022, the Fondation Louis Vuitton is also devoting a major retrospective to him to mark the centenary of his birth, confirming the major impact he had on the history of twentieth-century painting.
Simon Hantaï. L’exposition du centenaire “, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (May 18 to August 29, 2022)
Simon Hantaï : Par où on ne sait pas“, Musée des Beaux-arts de Rouen, Rouen (January 17, 2020 to April 27, 2020)
Simon Hantaï. Les noirs du blanc, les blancs du noir, Gagosian, Le Bourget (October 13, 2019 to June 27, 2020)
Simon Hantaï – Paris, 1948-1955, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (December 14 – January 20, 2018)
Simon Hantaï, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (June 22 – March 5, 2016)
Simon Hantaï – Pliage: the first decade, Mnuchin Gallery, New York (April 28 – June 26, 2015)
Simon Hantaï – Meuns, Guttklein Fine Art, Paris (May 13 – July 9, 2015)
Simon Hantaï – Regard sur quelques Tabulas, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 15 – November 28, 2015)
Simon Hantaï – Blancs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (October 22 – December 5, 2015)
Simon Hantaï, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, Rome, (February 12 – May 11, 2014)
Hantaï, Ludwig Mczeum, Budapest (May 9 – August 31, 2014)
Go Figure/Ground, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York (April 11 – December 21, 2013)
Simon Hantaï, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (May 8 – June 15, 2013)
Simon Hantaï, Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1, Paris, (May 22 – September 9, 2013)
Simon Hantaï, Panses 1964-1965, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 11 – November 24, 2012)
Simon Hantaï, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (March 19 – April 24) ; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (April 8 – May 22, 2010)
Simon Hantaï : Not for sale in New York, Paul Rodgers/9W, 27, New York (April – September 30, 2010)
Simon Hantaï, Judit Reigl, Galerie Malingue, Paris (June 5 – 30, 2007)
Simon Hantaï, François Rouan : “Conversation”, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (March 24 – April 30, 2005)
Signe-Geste-Écriture, Degottex / Hantaï, Galerie L’Or du temps, Paris (October 2 – November 6, 2004)
Simon Hantaï / Michel Parmentier, from the collections of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (January 17 – March 19, 2001)
Four digital prints on canvas by Simon Hantaï, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, (May 11 – June 2011)
Hantaï, Collections of the Musée national d’art moderne-Centre Pompidou and other French public collections, Musée d’art moderne, Céret (June 21 – September 27, 1998)
Donation Simon Hantaï », Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (1997)
Simon Hantaï, FIAC, Galerie Katia-Granoff, Paris (October 1994)
Simon Hantaï, Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris (October 28 – December 12, 1992)
Présentation d’œuvres de Hantaï, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (1988)
Simon Hantaï, French Institute of Scotland, Edinburgh (August 11 – September 29, 1985) ; Cultural Delegation, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (October 1 – 17, 1985) ; French Institute of the United Kingdom, London (October 21 – November 15, 1985)
Simon Hantaï, Paintings 1960-1980, Kasahara Gallery, Osaka (February 8 – 27, 1982)
Simon Hantaï, Tabulas 1980-1981, André Emmerich Gallery, New York (February 6 – 27, 1982)
Simon Hantaï, 40th Venice Biennale, French Pavilion, Venice (June 13 – September 12, 1982)
Tabulas lilas, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 17 – July 17, 1982)
Tabulas, suite récente, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 14 – November 15, 1980)
Hantaï : Tabulas, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaeck (April – 15 May, 1978)
Hantaï: Peintures et ensemble variables 1976-1977, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (October 21 – mid-November, 1977)
Hantaï, retrospective, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 26 – September 13, 1976)
Hantaï 1974, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 12 – July 12, 1975)
Hantaï: Paintings and Watercolors 1971-1975, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (October – November, 1975)
Hantaï: Blancs I, mainly five paintings from summer 1973, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (February 22 – March 9, 1974)
Hantaï: Blancs II, later works, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (March 13 – April 6, 1974)
Hantaï“, Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Étienne (November – December 1973)
Watercolors, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (April 14 – May 13, 1972)
Simon Hantaï. Le Pliage comme méthode: regards sur 10 années, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (June 22 – July 1971)
Études pour un mur, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (April 1970)
Hantaï: Paintings 1960-1970, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (October-November 1970)
Simon Hantaï: Pour Pierre Reverdy. Études, January-May 1969, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (June 19-July 26, 1969)
Presentation of Études, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (October 1969)
Hantaï: Peintures récentes, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (May 15 – June 30, 1968)
Hantaï, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (December 21 1968 – March 16, 1969)
Simon Hantaï: Peintures 1960-1967, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (June 1967)
Simon Hantaï: 138 small-format paintings. Jalons des années 1962-1965, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (June 2 – July 6, 1965)
Simon Hantaï: 12 recent large-format paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (September 22 – October 30, 1965)
Simon Hantaï : Peintures mariales, Galerie Kléber, Paris (May 25 – June 1962)
Simon Hantaï: Peintures sur papier antérieures à 1955 et petits formats, Galerie Kléber-Jean Fournier, Paris (March 1961)
Simon Hantaï: Peintures récentes. Souvenir de l’avenir, Galerie Kléber, Paris (March 3 – 30, 1958)
Simon Hantaï, Georges Mathieu. Les Cérémonies commémoratives de la condamnation de Siger de Brabant, Galerie Kléber, Paris (March 7 – 27, 1957)
Sexe-Prime. Hommage à Jean-Pierre Brisset et autres peintures de Simon Hantaï, Galerie Kléber-Jean Fournier, Paris (May 11 – June 9, 1956)
Simon Hantaï, Galerie À L’Étoile scellée, Paris (January 1953)
Les voies de l’abstraction: de Kandinsky à Reigl, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (February 14 – May 19, 2025)
Chez Dina Vierny – by Marie Anne Derville, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (October 18 – October 28, 2023)
Daniel Buren: A Tiger Cannot Change Its Stripes / A Triptych, Museumcultuur Strombeek, Ghent (January 9 – February 10, 2016)
Simon Hantaï, Pierre Buraglio, Michel Parmentier, Kacha Legrand, Florindo Nanni, Adrien Vescovi, (IM)MATERIEL, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (2014)
Disconnected, Bishop | Hantaï | Marioni, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York (November 6, 2014 – July 31, 2015)
James Bishop, Jean Degottex, Simon Hantaï : major works, Guttklein Fine Art, Paris (December 20, 2014 – January 2015)
Hantaï, Hartung, Soulages, Tàpies, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (November 20, 2013 – January 18, 2014)
Move, unfold, discover. French experiments 1960/1999: Simon Hantaï, Martin Barré, Marc Devade, Jean Degottex, Michel Parmentier, Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Lille (March 3 – June 17, 2012)
Modernism at the fringes, Colgate University, Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY (February 15 – July 15, 2011)
Le Surréalisme, organized by Centre Pompidou, The National Art Center, Tokyo (February 9 – May 15, 2011)
Surrealism The Poetry of Dreams from the Collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Moderne Art, Brisbane (June 11 – October 3, 2011)
L’Aventure de l’art abstrait : Charles Estienne critique d’art des années 50, Musée des beaux-arts, Brest (July 13 – November 7, 2011)
Masterpieces, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (May 12, 2010 – August 29, 2011)
Ils ont regardé Matisse : une réception abstraite États-Unis/Europe 1948-1968, Musée départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis (March 15 – June 14, 2009)
Hypnos. Images et inconscients en Europe 1900-1949, Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Lille (March 14 – July 12, 2009)
Traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 7 – August 11, 2008) ; Haus der Kunst, Munich (September 19, 2008 – January 11, 2009)
La Couleur toujours recommencée: hommage à Jean Fournier, marchand à Paris 1922-2006), Musée Fabre, Montpellier (February 4 – May 6, 2007)
Paris du monde entier: artistes étrangers à Paris, 1900-2005, organized by the Centre Pompidou, National Art Center, Tokyo (February 7 – May 7, 2007)
Paris, 1945-1956. L’envolée lyrique, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (April 26 – August 6, 2006)
Le Noir est une couleur, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (June 15 – November 5, 2006)
Peintures / Malerei, Martin-Gropius-Bau and Embassy of France in Berlin, Berlin (September 23 – November 12, 2006)
Judit Reigl“, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (October 5 – November 13, 2005)
Shadows and Lights. Four Centuries of French Painting, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (December 9, 2004 – February 27, 2005) ; Royal Castle, Warsaw (March 23 – June 8, 2005) ; Museum of Fine Arts, Bucharest (July 16 – October 2, 2005)
As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University of Columbus, Columbus (May 12 – August 12, 2001)
Parade 1901-2001, Collections du Centre Pompidou/Musée national d’art moderne, Pavillon Lucas Nogueira Garcia, São Paulo (October 2, 2001 – January 28, 2002)
La Peinture après l’abstraction, 1955-1975, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (May 20 – September 19, 1999)
Made in France 1947-1997: Présentation des collections permanentes, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (January 30 – September 29, 1997)
L’Empreinte, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (February 19 – May 19, 1997)
Abstractions France 1940/1965 : Peintures et dessins des Collections du Musée national d’art moderne, Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar (October 17 1977 – May 3, 1988)
La Dimension du corps 1920-1980 : un choix des collections du Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, Musée national d’art moderne, Tokyo (March 5 – May 19, 1996) ; Musée national d’art moderne, Kyoto (June 4 – August 18, 1996)
Manifeste: une histoire parallèle 1960-1990, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (September 23 – December 13, 1993)
Exhibition Rosemarie Castoro, Daniel Dezeuze, Simon Hantaï, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris (September 7 – October 2 1993)
Pariser Ungarn in Berlin: Simon Hantaï, Joseph Kadar, Institut français, Berlin (October 21 – November 26 1993) ; Maison de la Hongrie, Berlin (October 21 – December 16 1993)
Das offene Bild, Aspekte der Moderne in Europa nach 1945, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste (April 8 – May 31, 1993)
L’Art actif, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam (1992)
Le Geste de l’idée, Musée d’art moderne, Réfectoire des Jacobins, Toulouse (June 26 – September 15, 1992)
Les Nymphéas avant et après, Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris (October 27, 1992 – January 25, 1993)
Le grand émerveillement pour le sud : Barré, Buraglio, Bustamante... , Château de Villeneuve – Fondation Émile Hugues, Vence (December 5, 1992 – March 5, 1993)
André Breton, la beauté convulsive, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (April 25 – August 26, 1991) ; André Breton y el Surrealismo, Museo nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (October 1 – December 2, 1991)
La peinture abstraite dans les collections du Fonds régional d’art contemporain Bretagne, Le Quartier, Centre d’Art de Quimper, Quimper (May 31 – August 31, 1991)
Too French, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (November 16, 1991 – February 19, 1992) ; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (April 4 – June 7, 1992)
L’Art en France : un siècle d’inventions, du fauvisme aux années quatre-vingt, Pushkin Museum, Moscow (April 17 – May 9, 1989) ; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (June 1 – September 1, 1989)
Liberté & Égalité – Freiheit und Gleichheit – Wiederholung und Abweichung in der neueren französischen Kunst, Museum Folkwang, Essen (June 4 – August 27 1989) ; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur (September 24 – November 12 1989)
Donations Daniel Cordier : le regard d’un amateur, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (November 14, 1989 – January 21, 1990)
The 50s, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (June 30 – October 15, 1988)
L’Époque, la mode, la morale, la passion – Aspects de l’art d’aujourd’hui, 1977-1987, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 21 – August 17, 1987)
“Pictura Loquens” – 25 years of art in France, organized by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Centre national d’art contemporain, Nice (February 14 – April 14, 1986).
The late 60s. D’une contestation l’autre, Espace niçois d’art et de culture, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice (July 6 – September 28, 1986)
Art français du XXe siècle, Museum of Modern Art, Seoul (August 26 – October 31, 1986)
Anciens et nouveaux: choix d’œuvres acquises par l’État ou avec sa participation de 1981 à 1985, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (November 5, 1985 – February 3, 1986)
Empreinte – Geste – Surface. Le Musée décalé, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse (June 10 – September 14, 1983)
Nœuds et ligatures, Fondation nationales des arts graphiques et plastiques, Paris (June 21 – August 28, 1983)
Formes vivantes : modernismens tradition i Frankrike 1951-1983, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori (December 4 – 26, 1983) ; Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki (January 5 – 29, 1984)
Twelve Contemporary French Artists, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (1982)
Paris 1960-1980: Panorama de l’art français, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna (May 14 – July 25, 1982)
The Subject of Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (October 10 – November 28, 1982) ; Arnolfini, Bristol (December 4 1982 – January 15, 1983) ; Cartwright Hall, Bradford (January 29 – March 13, 1983)
37 Aktuella Konstnarer fran Frankrike, LiljevaJchs Konsthall, Stockholm (February 27 – April 26, 1981)
Bram Van Velde, Judit Reigl, Simon Hantaï, Antoni Tàpies, J.-P. Pincemin, Patrick Caillière, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers (April-May 1981)
Paris-Paris, 1937-1957, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris (May 28-November 2, 1981)
L’Amérique aux Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris (March 13 – April 13, 1980)
Avatars, 1950-1980 – 120 works, questions, transformations and traces, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (summer-September 1980)
New trends in French painting, Neue Galerie, Graz (October 18-November 16, 1980)
Tendances de l’art en France 1968-1978/9-1. Les partis-pris de Marcelin Pleynet, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (September 13 – October 21, 1979)
Henri Matisse and Contemporary French Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gand (October 7 – November 20, 1978)
3 collections… 3 cities: the avant-garde, 1960-1976, Musée Cantini, Marseille (February – March 1977) ; Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble (April-May 1977) ; Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Étienne (summer 1977)
Rosc ’77, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (August 21 – October 30, 1977)
1960-1975, French art panorama, Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery, Ankara (April 2 – 15, 1976); Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts Hall, Istanbul (April 21 – May 5, 1976)
Four Painters: Faucher, Hantaï, Rouan, Viallat, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (April 9 – 26, 1974)
Paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris (November 13 – December 12, 1973)
60-72: twelve years of contemporary art in France, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (May 17 – September 19, 1972)
À la rencontre de Matisse, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (summer 1969)
Exhibition of recent acquisitions from the CNAC Collections, Centre national d’art et de culture, Paris (September 1969)
L’Art vivant, 1965-1968, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (April 13 – June 30, 1968)
Peintres européens d’aujourd’hui / European Painters Today , Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (September 27 – November 17, 1968) ; Jewish Museum, New York (January 21 – March 16, 1969) ; Smithsonian Institution, Washington (April 9 – June 1, 1969) ; Museum of Contemporary Art, National Collection of Fine Arts, Chicago (July 5 – September 8, 1969) ; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (1969) ; Art Institute, Dayton (1969)
Painting in France 1900-1967, National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1968) ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1968) ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1968) ; The Art Institute, Chicago (1968) ; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (1968)
10 ans d’art vivant, 1955-1965, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul (May 3 – June 23, 1967)
Climat, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble (July-September 1966)
Exhibition in the form of a tryptique, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (July- September 1966)
Le Musée dans l’Usine – Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (September 28 – November 14, 1966)
Promises kept, Musée Galliera, Paris (September 7 – October 11, 1965)
Guggenheim International Award 1964, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (January – March 1964)
L’Écriture du peintre. Degottex, Georges, Giacometti, Hantaï, Hartung, Mathieu, Sonderbord, Tobey, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (May 13 – June 4, 1964)
The Pittsburgh International, Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (October 30, 1964 – January 10, 1965)
Jean Degottex, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Jean Messagier, Joan Mitchell, ten paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Paris (December 1964)
Antagonismes, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (February 1960)
Itinéraire d’un jeune collectionneur 1948-1958, Galerie Kléber, Paris (October 14 – November 1959)
The Exploration of Form: Paintings by René Guitte, Simon Hantaï, Asger Jorn, Antonio Tàpies, William Turnbull, Arthur Tooth Gallery, London (January 21 – February 5, 1958)
Benrath, Degottex, Dugue, Duvillier, Fautrier, Hantaï, Laubiès, Loubchansky, Mathieu, Michaux, Tobey, Van Haardt, Galerie Kléber, Paris (May 13 – June 2, 1958)
Old and new paintings by Marcelle Loubchansky, Degottex and Hantaï, Galerie Kléber, Paris (February 1957)
Toiles nouvelles 2 : Degottex, Francis, Hantaï, Hartung, Loubchansky, Mathieu, Michaux, Pollock, Reigl, Riopelle, Tobey, Wols, Galerie Kléber, Paris (September 26 – October 20, 1957)
Tensions: Georges, Viseux, Reigl, Hantaï, Degottex, Galerie René Drouin, Paris (July 6 – early October 1956)
Judit Reigl, Galerie Kléber, Paris (December 12 1956 – January 5 1957)
Younger European Painters, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (December 2, 1953 – February 21, 1954)
Ferenc Fiedler, Simon Hantaï, Judit Reigl, György Rózsa, Ádám Sjöholm, Fórum Klub, Budapest (1947)
