By lucky happenstance this retrospective of Olivier Mosser’s work from 1965 to 1985 coincided with a group show at the Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, in which Mosset presented some of his most recent paintings. These latest works indicate a shift away from the flat monochromatic painting that Mosser has practiced rigorously since 1977, the year of his move from Paris to New York, and toward a more painterly abstraction. If we look at Masset’s work as a whole, this most recent development can be seen less as a continuation of his previous painting than as a new interest in a new motif. Yet