Cote and value of works, drawings, paintings by Alfred Manessier

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Artist's rating and value

A major figure of abstraction, Alfred Manessier has established himself as an indisputable player on the art market. Highly prized and sought-after in auction rooms, some of his works can fetch hundreds of thousands of euros, as evidenced by his oil on canvas Turris Davidica adjudged €340,000 in 2007. 

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The artist's style and technique

Manessier's output is highly varied, and goes beyond the sacred art for which he is famous. After the war, he returned to his origins with abstract landscape paintings and concentrated on lithography, used as cartoons for his tapestries.

Identified as expressive abstraction, Manessier's works are characterized by a bold use of color, dynamic gestures, great research into the representation of light and space, and the presence of spiritual references. Thus, the artist's work reflects a deep sensitivity and a quest for personal artistic expression. 

The life of Alfred Manessier

Alfred Manessier is a French artist born in 1911. Particularly interested in painting, he trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Amiens and then in Paris. In 1932, he discovered and was immediately fascinated by the art of Piet Mondrian, founder of Neoplasticism. This discovery marked a turning point in his career as well as a new awareness.

From 1937, Alfred Manessier frequented avant-garde artists and created monumental decorations under the direction of the Delaunays, who initiated a very particular abstract movement, dubbed "orphism" by Guillaume Apollinaire. Initially influenced by the Cubist and Surrealist movements, his painting became resolutely abstract in reaction to Nazi censorship, while German demagogues regarded abstract expressionism as "degenerate art".

He was also a member of the De Stijl group, bringing together various abstract painters.

After the war, Alfred Manessier's fame grew thanks to the success of some of his paintings, acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 1947. He then devoted himself to creating stained-glass windows for churches, developing his interest in sacred art. His stained-glass creations in France and Europe are very much in vogue, notably the stained-glass windows of the Saint Sépulcre d'Abbeville in 1993.

L'empreinte d'Alfred Manessier sur son époque

Although his art is marked by thaumaturgical and ecclesiastical belief, abstraction and nature, Manessier refuses to be labeled a religious painter. Towards the end of his career, he produced politically engaged paintings, denouncing the violence of the Algerian and Vietnam wars, and advocating social peace, in a dynamic protest movement. His paintings, often entitled Hommage, contributed to his recognition by the general public.

His signature

Not all Alfred Manessier's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here is a first example of his signature:  

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