Judit Reigl
Unfolding (Déroulement)

Unfolding (Déroulement)

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Unfolding (Déroulement)
Unfolding (Déroulement)
ArtistHungarian, active France, 1923–2020
CultureHungarian
Titles
  • Unfolding (Déroulement)
Date1974
MediumMixed media on canvas
Dimensions60 1/4 × 69 1/2 in. (153 × 176.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Sietske and Herman Turndorf in honor of Betty Anderson
Object number2008.242
Not on view

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Judit Reigl emigrated to Paris in 1950, where she entered the circle of artists associated with the Surrealist poet André Breton. However, she soon struck a more independent course, emphasizing the process nature of her abstract compositions, as demonstrated by Unfolding. Working from behind the canvas so that the brushwork assumes a ghostly presence, Reigl restricted the palette to washes of dark gray punctured by terse strokes of white that dance laterally across the surface. “I work with my entire body, with arms wide open,” Reigl stated. “I inscribe the given space with motion, give it rhythm, heartbeat, tempo.”



ProvenanceThe artist; [Janos Gat Gallery, New York]; Sietske and Herman Turndorf; given to MFAH, 2008.
Exhibition HistoryJudit Reigl: A Survey, New York: Janos Gat Gallery, September 20 - November 24, 2007
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed on verso upper left side canvas: "J. Reigl 74."
Signed in ink on verso center stretcher: "REIGL 1974 'Déroulement' "

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