Galeria Marc Domènech is honored to announce its representation in Spain of the Estate of Georges Noël (1924–2010).

Georges Noël was born in Béziers in December 1924 and grew up in Pau, in southwestern France. After studying industrial design and painting, he worked for several years as a project designer at Turboméca, an aeronautics firm. In 1956, he decided to move to Paris and devote himself entirely to painting. He became closely associated with French and Italian Informel Art, which emphasised improvisation through the use of materials and gesture. Noël was also drawn to collage and assemblage. During this period, he was influenced by the works of Dubuffet, Klee, Pollock and Fontana, and formed friendships with Raymond Hains, François Dufrêne, and Jacques Villéglé. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was represented by Galerie Paul Facchetti in Paris. His growing fascination with the magic and mystery of prehistoric and archaic cultures led him to develop his own unique visual language – incised by scratching and tearing the painted surface – and a personal medium composed of powdered pigments, sand and glue.

In 1969, Noël moved to New York, where he was represented by the Pace Gallery. During the 1970s, his work evolved into a more geometric and structured style. In 1983, he returned to France, where his paintings synthesised the gestural style of his earlier work with the structured compositions of his New York period. Georges Noël passed away in Paris on November 26, 2010.

His works are held in numerous important private and public collections worldwide, including the Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM), Pinault Collection (Paris), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Museo del Novecento (Milan) and the Ise Cultural Foundation (Tokyo).

We are currently preparing Georges Noël: 1965–1975 / Paris–New York, which will run from October 10 to December 5, 2024. The exhibition will highlight Noël’s transition from his signature style of the 1960s to the geometric compositions of his American period.