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Henri Michaux (1899-1984)
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Henri Michaux (1899-1984)
Composition, 1959-1961
Ink on paper, signed lower right
75.5 x 106 cm
29 4/4 x 41 3/4 in.
Henri Michaux
Composition, 1959-1951
Of Belgian origin, Henri Michaux is a writer, poet and painter of French expression. Born in Namur in 1899, he grew up in Brussels but decided in the early 1920s to leave his native country to settle in Paris. Little by little, he moved away from his Belgian origins and finally became a French citizen in 1955. He began his career by writing, notably by actively participating in the avant-garde review Le Disque vert in Brussels, but also by being a member of the editorial committee of the review Hermès in Paris. From 1925 onwards, he turned to painting and developed an important graphic production. He used watercolor, pencil, gouache and ink. From a very young age, the artist showed a fascination for medicine and, failing to pursue a career in this field, he developed his interest, particularly in psychoanalysis, through both his pictorial and literary productions. From the 1950s onwards, Henri Michaux turned to new experiments and deliberately altered his conscious state by taking mescaline, a hallucinogenic plant originating from Mexico. The resulting works are like pictorial dances, illustrating ideas, emotions or even the beginnings of the mind. The forms that appear on the canvas are not fixed, we cannot discern if they are about to disappear or if they have just been born, they are the image of our mind, of its reorganization and its constant movement. In this way, the works he creates are never finished products but rather glimpses of his search for movement. He himself explains: "I wanted to draw the consciousness of existence and the flow of time. As one feels one's pulse".
"I wanted to draw the consciousness of existence and the flow of time. As one feels one's pulse"
Composition, 1959-1961
Ink on paper, signed lower right
75.5 x 106 cm
29 4/4 x 41 3/4 in.
Henri Michaux
Composition, 1959-1951
Of Belgian origin, Henri Michaux is a writer, poet and painter of French expression. Born in Namur in 1899, he grew up in Brussels but decided in the early 1920s to leave his native country to settle in Paris. Little by little, he moved away from his Belgian origins and finally became a French citizen in 1955. He began his career by writing, notably by actively participating in the avant-garde review Le Disque vert in Brussels, but also by being a member of the editorial committee of the review Hermès in Paris. From 1925 onwards, he turned to painting and developed an important graphic production. He used watercolor, pencil, gouache and ink. From a very young age, the artist showed a fascination for medicine and, failing to pursue a career in this field, he developed his interest, particularly in psychoanalysis, through both his pictorial and literary productions. From the 1950s onwards, Henri Michaux turned to new experiments and deliberately altered his conscious state by taking mescaline, a hallucinogenic plant originating from Mexico. The resulting works are like pictorial dances, illustrating ideas, emotions or even the beginnings of the mind. The forms that appear on the canvas are not fixed, we cannot discern if they are about to disappear or if they have just been born, they are the image of our mind, of its reorganization and its constant movement. In this way, the works he creates are never finished products but rather glimpses of his search for movement. He himself explains: "I wanted to draw the consciousness of existence and the flow of time. As one feels one's pulse".
"I wanted to draw the consciousness of existence and the flow of time. As one feels one's pulse"