Collection: François Morellet

François Morellet (1926–2016) was a French artist whose practice spanned painting, sculpture, installation and neon, engaging with questions of systematic abstraction, geometry, chance, optical perception and the demystification of artistic authorship. A founding member of the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV) in 1960, he developed a rigorous approach to abstraction based on predetermined rules and systems, producing works of great formal clarity and wit. Morellet exhibited widely in major international institutions over six decades and his work is held in significant public collections worldwide, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He was included in Surprise, Surprise at Galerie Jean Greset, Besançon, in 2013.