Under the impetus of Alexandra Mas,

a collective of artists has come together within the

Salon Comparaisons

to embody, today, the vitality of Abstract Expressionism.

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February 12-15 2026

Grand Palais, Paris

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Born in the postwar period around major figures such as Jackson Pollock,

Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Joan Mitchell, Abstract Expressionism profoundly

reshaped the history of art by asserting the primacy of gesture, materiality, and emotion. This American

impulse found immediate resonance in Europe, where painters including Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages,

Serge Poliakoff, and Gérard Schneider durably inscribed a language of pictorial freedom, intensity, and depth.

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The group positions itself within this dual lineage, American and European. The objective is not to replicate

the forms of the past, but to extend their spirit and to offer the viewer a direct experience of pictorial force. Each

artist affirms a singular visual writing, yet all share a common language intensity of gesture, chromatic density, material ruptures, and the breathing of light.​  The Abstract Expressionism Group thus brings together international voices that, each in their own way, reactivate this foundational “ism” and anchor it firmly in the present.