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Mon-Fri: 10-6pm; Sat: 11-4pm

Exploring the concept of “Abstract Impressionism” often proposed as a distinction between European abstraction and American Abstract “Expressionism”.

When the critic Pierre Guéguen referred to André Lanskoy’s “impressionnisme abstrait” in the catalogue of the artist’s 1957 exhibition at Galerie Louis Carré, it was a much debated term, often proposed as a distinction between European abstraction and American Abstract “Expressionism”.

The implication being that European abstract painters more often derived their inspiration from the external optical perception of the physical world, as opposed to the American “Ab Ex” self-referential narrative of manifesting the inner emotions of the artist’s psyche or “soul”.

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