"Nouvelle Figuration : Acte III"

From 11 September to 11 October 2008
Picture - Catherine de Montholon
Enrico Baj - Available works
Enrico Baj (1924-2003), born to middle-class Italian parents, studied law and took classes at the Academia di Brera in Milan from 1945 to 1948. In 1951, he founded the Arte Nucleare movement with a...
Picture - Ramona in her privacy
Antonio Berni
Antonio Berni(1905-1981), Argentina After studying art and producing an early body of neo-Impressionist work, Antonio Berni came to Paris to study with Lhote and Friesz from 1925 to 1931. In Paris,...
Picture - Black profil
John Christoforou - Available works
Born in 1921. Lives in FranceJohn Christoforou was born in London to Greek parents. His mother died when he was nine months old. In 1930, his family moved to Athens, where his father died two years...
Picture - Character
Roger Edgar Gillet - Available works
Roger-Edgar Gillet (1924-2004) studied at the Boulle School of Applied Arts from 1939 to 1943 before joining the Ecole Normale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 1994. He began a career as a decorator...
Jacques Grinberg
French artist (1941 - Sofia, Bulgaria - 2011, Paris). After studying at the Fine Arts school of Tel Aviv (1957—1960), Jacques Grinberg moves to Paris, and exhibits for the first time in Gent,...
Picture - The philosopher
Bengt Lindström - Available works
Bengt Lindström (1925-2008) spent two years studying at the Stockholm Academy (1944-45), then spent time in Copenhagen and Chicago before settling in Paris, where he was a frequent visitor to Léger...
Michel Macréau
Michel Macréau (1935-1995) began his career as an illustrator in the Vallauris pottery studios. In the late 1950s, he moved into an old, uninhabited château in the Chevreuse valley near Paris, where...
Maryan
Maryan’s short life (1927-1977) was marked by tragedy. A Polish Jew, he was captured and tortured by the Nazis. He was the only member of his family to survive, narrowly escaping death in a...
Marcel Pouget
Marcel Pouget was born in 1923 in Oran, and died in 1985. Originally an abstract expressionist, Marcel Pouget played a major part in launching the Nouvelle Figuration movement at the end of the 1950'...
Picture - Frog
Paul Rebeyrolle - Available works
Born in 1926, this self taught very independent character held his first show in 1951. Member of the French communist party in 1953, he lets go of it in 1956 after the Hungary uprisings. By 1968, his...
Picture - The Sceptic
Francis Salles - Available works
Born in 1926, France. After studying at the Ecole du Louvre, Francis Salles became an actor, playing an artist (!) in a 1947 film and acting in a play whose stage set was designed by Soulages. He...
Picture - I was tired of working ...,
Antonio Saura - Available works
Antonio Saura (1930-1998) became ill with tuberculosis in 1943 and began painting and writing in 1947. He was entirely self-taught. He was part of the Surrealist group in Paris in 1954 and 1955. In...
Picture - Until recently he was a man
Antonio Segui - Available works
Antonio Seguí, born in Córdoba in Argentina (1934), travelled widely in Europe and Africa from 1951 to 1954. He studied painting and sculpture in France and Spain. His first solo exhibition was in...