A Sensory Landscape Painted by Josef Sima: The Milan Plain
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Making its auction debut, The Milan Plain is a late oil by the Franco-Czech painter, whose mental landscapes, born of sensory experiences, hark back to the early days of Surrealism and Le Grand Jeu review. Joseph Sima (1891-1971), The Milan Plain, 1962, oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm/23.6 x 28.7 in.Estimate: €100,000/150,000 The canvas soon coming up for sale in Boulogne-Billancourt is a work from Sima's last decade, a period when he was at his peak, marked by profound pictorial developments, with paintings composed of linear and geometric signs and transformed light-matter. Close to Surrealism in its early stages, Sima's art evolved into imaginary landscapes, which between 1960
