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Hermann Amann (1934–2020), born in Germany and long based in France, placed colour at the centre of his artistic development. He began with Expressionist landscapes in 1952 and studied pigments at Basel’s Gewerbeschule in 1954. During the 1960s, landscapes, portraits and nudes still formed a figurative body of work. His first gallery solo exhibition, La vie champêtre des anges, took place in 1963. Les vingt et une couleurs, presented in 1974, underlines the importance of his chromatic research. In 1986, he developed “Nouvelle Pigmentation”, which he pursued for the rest of his life. Groups of works including Architectones, Habitables, Les particules and La Montagne Sainte Victoire belong to this phase, in which research into colour provides continuity across his practice.
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Oil on canvas
Chemin de la couleur
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2025-11-27 — 2025-12-10
Published result : 420 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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Oil on canvas
Les traces en couleur
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2025-11-27 — 2025-12-10
Published result : 480 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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