Simon Hantaï: Azzurro Cynthia Carr and the means by which

and the means by which it is made

The catalogue reproduces all of Saville’s work as plates and installed amid the elemental forms of the house’s architecture

and twenty brief histories of diamonds depicted in the paintings

and gestures

Simon Hantaï: Azzurro Cynthia Carr and the means by whichThis book was published on the occasion of Simon Hanta: Azzurro at Gagosian, Rome. Curated by Anne Baldassari, the exhibition focused on the significance of blue in the artists practice, illuminating his affinity with Italy and the influence on his work of its classical painting tradition. Azzurro featured work from throughout Hantas career and included many paintings produced using his characteristic pliage (folding) technique, in which a canvas is