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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 5, 2019 | Dorotheum | Vienna | Contemporary Art I | 210 | $****** - ****** | Sébastien comte de Montecuculi tiré à quatre chevaux |
paintings
89 x 130 cm (35.04 x 51.18 in)
oil on canvas
titled on the stretcher
Galerie Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
Private Collection, Rome
Galleria Blu, Milan (stamp on the stretcher)
Private Collection, Asti
Millon, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 20 November 2017, lot 26
European Private Collection
Milan, Galleria del Naviglio, Mathieu, Peintures et Gouaches,
14 June - 30 June 1961, cat. no. 3
titled on the stretcher, oil on canvas, 89 x 130 cm, framed
We are grateful to Jean-Marie Cusinberche for his assistance in cataloging this work.
Provenance:
Gallery Internationale d'Art Contemporain, Paris
Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
Private Collection, Rome
Galleria Blu, Milan (stamp on the stretcher)
Private Collection, Asti
Millon, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 20 Nov 2017, lot 26
European Private Collection
Exhibited:
Milan, Galleria del Naviglio, Mathieu, Peintures et Gouaches,
14 June - 30 June 1961, cat. no. 3
"Working on a previously prepared background, I execute a movement that, done at its maximum efficiency, requires nothing more to be added; I would go as far as to say that, for me, the paintings where I have the minimum of the highest, the most important. "
Georges Mathieu
[...] Georges Mathieu painted a very small number of the Zen works during his career. [...] Mathieu sometimes attained after occasional periods of intense concentration. His paintings, which are in the process of intensely focused energy, are employed in a rapid and intuitive manner, and which are based on "brushstrokes and paint deposits" becomes superfluous, leaving a small number of powerful ideograms written in Mathieu's language, where "sign precedes meaning." [...]
georges-mathieu.fr
The title of this work, "Sébastien, comte de Montecuculi, tiré à quatre chevaux", refers to Italian nobleman in the service of Francis I of France, who was executed for allegedly having poisoned the King's eldest son.
Ascended to the Dauphin Francis, heir to the French throne, he was suspected of having poisoned him with a glass of water as Francis unexpectedly died on August 10, 1536. Under torture Montecuculli con-fessed to have tried to poison King Francis and the Dauphin. Later he retracted his con-fession but was executed by écartèlement, that is, drawn and quartered.
Mathieu loved using historical titles, even if there is absolutely no relation to the work itself. In this context, the French art critic, Michel Tapie, declared:
"It is without the slightest regret, and [Mathieu] fully knows this, but with a maximum of intentional provocation, that he gives them titles ... which by force place the viewer beyond absurd everyday mediocrity ...".
