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While the works by Luis Fernández (Seascape No. 4) and Pablo Picasso (Tête de femme souriante, 1943) testify to the multiple metamorphoses of figurative painting in the immediate postwar period, the 1950s saw a new current of abstraction run through Western art, expressed in directions often directly inspired by the late developments in the surrealist adventure: Camille Bryen (Catharsigne, 1954), Simon Hantai, Jean-Paul Riopelle (Crépusculaire, 1953), Philippe Hosiasson and the Japanese artists Kasuo Shiraga and Jiro Yoshihara (Painting, 1958), members of the Gutai group.

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