Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/andre-minaux-1641" aria-label="More by André Minaux" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">André Minaux</a>
Armchair in an Interior
Purchased 1953
chair
cloth
cupboard
domestic
furnishings
interior - non-specific
interiors
kitchen
miscellaneous
objects
saucepan
stool
<p>We see the corner of the artist's apartment in Paris. He wrote: 'I like very much to work at home trying to compose with a chair, a table or something else, a pictoral whole.' Minaux was one of a group of young French artists who championed a return to realism, despite the prevailing fashion of the time for abstraction, and in particular the Abstract-Expressionist style developed by American painters like Jackson Pollock. Minaux's paintings were mostly in sombre, earthy pigments. Later, in the 1960s, his work became more stylised and colourful.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
23 March 2001 – 9 June 2002
2002-06-09
23 March 2001 – 9 June 2002
2002-06-09
2001-03-23
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2001-03-23
1951: The Shape of a Year
Collection based display
Arm-chair in an Interior
support: 1619 × 968 mm

Purchased 1953
<p>We see the corner of the artist's apartment in Paris. He wrote: 'I like very much to work at  home trying to compose with a chair, a table or something else, a pictoral whole.' Minaux was one of a group of young French artists who championed a return to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/realism" title="Glossary definition for 'Realism'"><span>realism</span></a>, despite the prevailing fashion of the time for <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstraction</span></a>,  and in particular the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-expressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract Expressionism'"><span>Abstract-Expressionist</span></a> style developed by American painters like Jackson Pollock. Minaux's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> were mostly in sombre, earthy pigments. Later, in the 1960s,  his work became more stylised and colourful.</p>
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2004-08-31T00:00:00
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<p><b>André Minaux</b><span> born 1923 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/minaux-arm-chair-in-an-interior-n06168" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06168</span></a> </span><b>Fauteuil dans un Intérieur</b><span>
(Arm-Chair in an Interior) 1951 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'André Minaux' b.r. and 'André Minaux 1951' on back of canvas</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 63 3/4 x 38 1/8 (162 x 97)</span>
<br/><span>Purchased from the artist through the Adams Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1953</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>André Minaux</i><span>, Galerie Bernier, Paris, May 1951 (works not listed) as 'Fauteuil dans un Intérieur'; </span><i>André Minaux</i><span>, Adams Gallery, London, April-May 1953 (20) as 'La Chaise'; </span><i>4 French Realists</i><span>, Tate Gallery, August-September 1955 (6)</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
</span><i>Illustrated London News</i><span>, CCXXIII, 1953, p.662 </span>
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<p><span>This picture, painted in Paris, has sometimes been known as 'The Chair' but was originally exhibited under the more explicit title used here. The artist wrote (letter of 24 July 1953) that it represents a corner of his studio-apartment. 'I like very much to work at home trying to compose with a chair, a table or something else, a pictorial whole'. What seems to be the same chair appears in two <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithographs</span></a> of 1950 and 1951 (Charles Sorlier, </span><i>Minaux Lithographe 1948-1973</i><span>, Monte-Carlo 1974, Nos.32 and 35, repr.). The earlier of these shows a very similar arrangement of objects, but with the chair turned to the right instead of the left. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.521, reproduced p.521</span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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chair cloth cupboard domestic furnishings interior - non-specific interiors kitchen miscellaneous objects saucepan stool