The Galerie Polad-Hardouin pays homage to Nouvelle Figuration

The Mathias Fels Gallery in Paris held two exhibitions in 1961 and 1962 to turn the spotlight on a young generation of artists who overturned the canons of traditional figurative art and the diktats of abstract art to launch the Nouvelle Figuration school.
As the art critic Michel Ragon wrote at the time, their dazzlingly inventive paintings went “beyond notions of the figurative and the abstract”.
Now, some fifty years later, the Polad-Hardouin Gallery is hosting a long overdue retrospective in honour of the artists who did so much to renew the canons of painting: Maryan, Macréau, Pouget, Christoforou, Baj, Gillet, Grinberg, Rebeyrolle, Segui, Saura, Lindström, Berni, and Sallès. The gallery is proud to pay homage to the artists of the “new figurative” school, who opened a new path for later generations to explore.
The gallery has published a catalogue to mark the exhibition.