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Their somber tones stood in sharp contrast to the bright colors favored by the adherents of Tachisme, France’s answer to Abstract Expressionism.

Ignored entirely are movements—French tachisme, Northern European COBRA—that contested New York supremacy at the time and seem ripe, now, for reconsideration.

Their goal was to sweep aside familiar modes of gestural painting and pictorial sentimentality, most prominently exemplified by Abstract Expressionism and Tachisme.

While Ms. Bhabha actively reformulates and intensifies the existentialist figurative sculpture of that era, Mr. Hesidence has turned to Tachisme and Art Informel with similar results.

To the sophisticated French pursuit of paint as paint�tachisme, art brut, or art informel�Spaniards such as T�pies brought robust energy.