• Georges Noel
• French, b. 1924
• "Palimpseste Arraché, 1959"
• Mixed Media
• 29 ¼ x 42 inches, Framed: 29 ¾ x 42 ½ inches
• Signed upper left, 1959
• Price on Request

Arraché translates in English as “to snatch victory”. This is a dynamic work by Georges Noël from his early period when he first exhibited with the Facchetti’s Galley in Paris. At this time works by Jackson Pollack, Cy Twombly, Jean Dubuffet and Sam Francis were part of an avant-garde movement that was changing the nature of abstract painting in France. Noël was one of the innovators shortly thereafter of the “Group Informel”. Similar to Twombly, Noel’s “Palimpsestes” which is what he calls all his canvases, are partially about writing and symbols, something which has been important to man since ancient times.