Simon Hantaï: Azzurro Cynthia Carr The book also includes an

The book also includes an interview between Wood and the legendary Los Angeles–based printermaker Jacob Samuel

and twenty brief histories of diamonds depicted in the paintings

The sole landscape in the series

and gestures

Simon Hantaï: Azzurro Cynthia Carr The book also includes anThis 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