The art market recognizes Aurélie Nemours as one of the most important contemporary artists of the 20th century, with her contemporary works consistently generating excitement. This enthusiasm comes from collectors, art galleries, modern and contemporary art museums, and auction houses alike. Her contemporary paintings are now featured in major museums and prestigious private collections.

Born in 1910 in Paris, Aurélie Nemours was a French artist and painter. She developed an early interest in art and studied Egyptian and Byzantine art at the École du Louvre starting in 1929. In 1941, she enrolled in the Académie of André Lhote after completing artistic training in the studio of graphic designer Paul Colin. She first exhibited at the Salon d’Art Sacré in 1946.

Between 1948 and 1951, she regularly attended the studio of Fernand Léger. Her encounter with Belgian painter and art critic Michel Seuphor was pivotal for her career. He introduced her to the work of Piet Mondrian, which she had not previously known. This discovery had a profound influence on Nemours and encouraged her to pursue the path of abstraction. Seuphor also helped organize her first solo exhibition at Colette Allendy’s gallery in 1953, which was well received by the public. Nemours joined several artistic groups, including Groupe ESPACE in France and Groupe Mesure in Germany.

Throughout her work, Aurélie Nemours demonstrated how, in her view, geometric abstraction best expressed the 20th century. From the 1960s onward, the square took center stage in her compositions. The work Céphée, for instance, reflects this key period of the artist’s production. As a mathematical construction, she created her works by focusing her paintings on horizontal and vertical lines. She also worked with color in subtle ways, exploring the vibrations of black and white, as well as monochromes in polyptych formats. She aspired to a sense of monumentality, developing her works in series, in horizontal installations, in columns, or as square arrangements.

A celebrated and recognized artist, Aurélie Nemours was awarded the Grand Prix National de Peinture in 1994. The Centre Georges-Pompidou dedicated a major retrospective to her in 2004, Rythme, nombre, couleur, which featured 170 works and traced her career. A significant catalog accompanied the exhibition, exploring her key concepts and artistic stances. A year later, in 2005, Aurélie Nemours passed away in Paris at the age of 94. The auction house Aguttes frequently organizes modern and contemporary art auctions, achieving consistently strong results. The Contemporary Art Department offers collectors the opportunity to have works by Aurélie Nemours appraised and valued confidentially.

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