Henri-Georges Adam

(Paris: 14 January 1904 - Perros-Guirec: 1967)

Valerio Adami

(born in Bologna on 17 March 1935)

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Jean-Michel Alberola

Saïda, Algeria: 1953.
Jean-Michel Alberola is a French painter, sculptor and photographer.

Pierre Albert-Birot

(Angoulême: 22 April 1876; Paris: 25 July 1967)

Pierre Alechinsky

(19 October 1927 in Saint-Gilles-lez-Bruxelles - Belgium)

As a student of typography and illustration at the Ecole nationale d'architecture et des arts décoratifs de la Cambre (Brussels), he discovered in 1945 the work of Henri Michaux de Dubuffet, the Surrealists, and became friends with the art critic Jacques Putman.
In 1949, he met Dotremont and joined the Cobra movement that same year with Asger Jorn and Karel Appel) and was one of the most productive members until the dissolution of the movement in 1951. Alechinsky took part in the first International Cobra Exhibition at the Stedjelijk Museum in Amsterdam and in 1954 he met the Chinese painter Wallace Ting who would play an important role in the development of his work.
In the 1950s, the artist spent time in the Far East, then in the United States; he became interested in Japanese calligraphy and Action Painting, which would have a lasting influence on his work.
The artist produced a very large number of lithographs and engravings; passionate about books, he illustrated poems and texts (Cioran, Butor, Yves Bonnefoy, André Frénaud, Tardieu, etc.) and published numerous works.

In 1983, Alechinsky became professor of painting at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Daniel Jacques Allonsius

Painter, draughtsman, sculptor and designer, Daniel Jacques Allonsius (1923 - 1995), was a student of He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1940 to 1943, then at the École des Arts Appliqués in Fort-de-France from 1950 to 1951.

Georges Annenkoff

(Petropavlovsk, USSR then Kazakhstan: 18 July 1889 - Paris: 12 July 1974)

Painter, set designer, book illustrator and editor of the leading Russian art magazine Mir Iskusstva, Yury (or Juri) Annenkov studied art at St Petersburg University with Marc Chagall. He went to Paris in 1911 to work in the studios of Maurice Denis and Félix Vallotton. His first illustrated works were published in the late 1910s, including "Twelve" by Alexander Blok (1918), which is considered one of his masterpieces. In 1922, he published "Portraits", which contains 80 images of key figures in Russian art of the time. Forced to leave the Soviet Union for good in 1924, he lived first in Germany and then settled in Paris, where he was naturalised under the name Georges Annenkoff. He then continued his work as an artist, costume designer and set designer for around a hundred plays and ballets and some sixty films.

Karel Appel

(Amsterdam : 25 avril 1921 – Zurich : 3 mai 2006)

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Arman

(Nice : 17 november 1928 -  New York: 22 October 2005)

Huguette Arthur-Bertrand

(Écouen – 1920, Paris – 2005)

Peintre française rattachée à l’abstraction lyrique et à la Nouvelle École de Paris de l’après-guerre.
Formée dans le contexte parisien de l’immédiat après-guerre, notamment à l’Académie libre de la Grande Chaumière, elle bénéficie d’une bourse qui lui permet de séjourner à Prague entre 1946 et 1947, où elle présente sa première exposition personnelle.

Dès la fin des années 1940, elle s’inscrit durablement dans le réseau des expositions structurantes de l’abstraction parisienne. Elle participe aux grandes manifestations collectives de la période, notamment au Salon de Mai et au Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, ainsi qu’aux expositions « Les Mains éblouies » organisées par la Galerie Maeght à partir de 1949.

Son œuvre, résolument non figurative, se caractérise par une construction dynamique du champ pictural, fondée sur des rythmes de lignes, de zébrures et de faisceaux colorés, avant d’évoluer vers des compositions plus diffuses et atmosphériques. À partir des années 1960, elle développe parallèlement une pratique du collage, puis s’oriente, dans les décennies suivantes, vers la tapisserie, réalisant notamment des œuvres destinées à des commandes publiques.

Expositions collectives et salons

• « Les Mains éblouies », Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1949 et 1950

• Salon de Mai, Paris, à partir de 1949

• Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, à partir de 1950

• « 50 ans de collage », Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 1964

• « 50–57, une aventure de l’art abstrait », Musée Galliera, Paris, 1967

• « L’Envolée lyrique. Paris 1945–1956 », Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2006

• « Les Sujets de l’abstraction. Peinture non figurative de la Seconde École de Paris », Musée Rath, Genève, 2011

• « Femmes années 1950. Au fil de l’abstraction », Musée Soulages, Rodez, 2019–2020

Expositions personnelles

• Galerie Niepce, Paris, 1951

• Galerie Arnaud, Paris, entre 1953 et 1957

• Galerie Meltzer, New York, 1956

• Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, 1957

Œuvres dans les collections publiques

En France, des œuvres de Huguette Arthur-Bertrand sont conservées dans les collections nationales et municipales, notamment au Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, au Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, ainsi qu’au Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole.

À l’international, son travail est représenté dans plusieurs institutions nord-américaines, notamment au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and Walker Art Center.

Geneviève Asse

Geneviève Asse, real name Geneviève Bodin, born in Vannes on January 24, 1923, joined the École nationale des arts décoratifs in 1940 and exhibited at the Salon des moins de trente ans and the Salon d'automne.

After the war, where she joined the FFI, she joined the Groupe de L'Echelle and met Samuel Beckett, André Lanskoy, Serge Poliakoff, Serge Charchoune, Nicolas de Staël, Bram and Geer van Velde.
Geneviève Asse now divides her work between Paris and L'île aux Moines, and is considered one of the major artists of abstraction in France. She recently exhibited her engraved work at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (2002) and her "Peintures" at the Centre Pompidou (2013).

"Behind the horizon, the dawn, shaded greys, transparent ultramarine blues, whites that disappear in the grain of the canvas, nothing outside of time. "(Working Notes, 1974)

Jean-Michel Atlan

(Constantine; Algeria: 23 January 1913 - Paris: 12 February 1960 )

Marc Attali

Jean Audema

(1864-1921)

Since the late nineteenth century, France manages several colonies in Central Africa and particularly from 1882, the French Congo which includes the current Gabon and Republic of Congo. Born August 19, 1864 in Montpellier, Jean Audema was employed as an auxiliary in Congo in 1894, then postmaster in 1898, station chief in 1902, and was finally promoted to a colonial administrator in 1904. During this period he made numerous photos in Gabon, Congo and Chad between 1894 and 1912. A large part of his photographs were used for postcards distributed in France and which were a great success and soon collected.

The National Museum of African Art's Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives has made these precious time-documents available online.

And by comparing postcards and our photographs we note on postcards that show scarification the use of the same poses and accessories.

Jean Audema is considered today as one of the pioneers of photography in central Africa, his original photographs are of all rarities, such a set never appeared on the trade.

Albert Ayme

(Saint-Geniès-des-Mourgues: 26 July 1920 - Paris: 19 June 2012)

Ferdinand Bac

(Stuttgart: 15 August 1859 - Compiègne : 18 November 1952)

Francis Bacon

(Born 28 October 1909 in Dublin and died 28 April 1992 in Madrid)

Julius Baltazar

(Paris: 13 July 1949)

Olga Baswitz

Edmond Baudoin

(Nice: 23 April 1942)

Jean Bazaine

(Paris: 21 December 1904 - Clamart: 4 March 2001)

André Beaudin

(born on 3 February 1895 in Mennecy and died on 6 June 1979)

Painter and sculptor member of the École de Paris.

Eugène Béjot

Hans Bellmer

(born on 13 March 1902 in Kattowitz, German Silesia and died on 23 February 1975 in Paris)

Franco-German painter, photographer, engraver, draughtsman and sculptor.

Vautier Ben

(Naples born 18 July 1935)

Christian Berard

Ingrid Bergman

Roger Bertemes

Emile Bertin

Gianni Bertini

(Pisa: 31 August 1922 - Caen: 8 July 2010)

Ange Boaretto

Padua, Italy: 1920.
Painter close to Pablo Picasso and Paul Eluard.

Gus Bofa

(Brive-la-Gaillarde: 23 May 1883 - Aubagne : 1^er September 1968)

Christian Boltanski

(Paris: 6 September 1944 -14 July 2021)

Paul Bonet

(Paris: 15 February 1889 - 2 March 1971)

Artist and technician of the modern book, famous among bibliophiles for his decorations of art bindings but also for his models of industrial bindings.

Antoine Bourdelle

(Montauban: 30 October 1861- Vésinet: 1 October 1929)

Louise Bourgeois

(Paris: 25 December 1911 - New York: 31 May 2010)

Georges Braque

(Seine-et-Oise: 13 May 1882 - Paris: 31 August 1963,

Brassaï

(Brassó: 9 September 1896 - Beaulieu-sur-Mer: 8 July 1984)

Herman BRAUN-VEGA

(Lima, Pérou : 7 juillet 1933 – Paris :  2 avril 2019)

Artiste peintre franco-péruvien

Expositions personnelles:

• 1965 : Galería Jueves, Lima
• 1966 : HB66 : pinturas acrilicas, Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima.
• 1969 : Vélasquez mis à nu, Galerie 9, Paris. Galerie Club 44, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse
• 1970 : Pour l’amour de l’art, Galerie 9, Paris. Galería Carlos Rodríguez, Lima.
• 1971 : Vélasquez, Manet, Cézanne, and Picasso Revised, Jack Misrachi Gallery, New York. Art Gallery of the Organization of American States, Washington.
• 1972 : Le bain turc à New York d’après Ingres, Lerner-Misrachi Gallery, New York.
• 1975 : L’enlèvement des sabines d’après Poussin, Galerie Isy Brachot, Bruxelles.
• 1976 : Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris
• 1977 : Rembraun: Agressions, mutilations et faux, Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris. Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam.
• 1980 : il représente le Pérou à la 39e biennale de Venise, Italie.
• 1981 : Portraits de peintres, Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris. Galerie Mâcon, Mâcon, France. Buenos días señor…, Galería Camino Brent, Lima.
• 1982 : Papeles, Galería Forum, Lima.
• 1984 : Paysages-Mémoires, Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris.
• 1985: Memorias, Galería Camino Brent, Lima ;  18e Biennale de São Paulo, Brésil
• 1986 : CAYC, Buenos Aires. Museo de Artes Visuales, Montevideo.
• 1987 : Mémoires dénudées, galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris. Rétrospective, Château et parc de la Louvière, Montluçon[218].Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Chamalières.
• 1988 : Feurs, France. La Galería, Quito. Paisajes Memorias, Museo de Arte Italiano, Lima.
• 1989 : Casa del Moral, Arequipa, Pérou. Casa Ganoza, Trujillo, Pérou. Rétrospective, Musée Henri Boez, Maubeuge.
• 1990 : Galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris.
• 1992 : Rétrospective, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid.
• 1993 : Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Chamalières. Galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris.
• 1994 : Natures Mortes, Galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris.
• 1995 : Académie Orléans-Tours, Orléans. Bibliothèque municipale, Tours. Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux. A.R.C., Rezé. Galerie Écritures, Montluçon
• 1996 : IUFM, Besançon. Container 96, ‘Art Across Oceans’, Copenhagen. Maison de la Culture, Bourges. Galerie Pascal Gabert, Paris.
• 1997 : Maison du Loir-et-Cher, Blois. Cellier de Loëns, Chartres. Arte B.A. 97, Buenos Aires. Galería de Santi, Buenos Aires.
• 1998 : Galerie WAM, Caen. Corderie Royale, Rochefort.
• 1999 : Galerie du Centre, Paris. Nohra Haime Gallery, New York.
• 2000 : 22e Moussem Culturel d’Assilah, Assilah, Maroc.
• 2000-2001 : Ralli Museum, Caesarea, Israël.
• 2001 : Erinnerungen : Synkretismus und Integration, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin. Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. Berlin. Galerie Wam, Caen. Galerie municipale Julio-González, Arcueil.
• 2002 : Rétrospective, Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris — Galerie du Centre, Paris — Centre culturel de la PUCP, Lima.
• 2003 : Artparis, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris.
• 2004 : Galerie Le Garage, Orléans.
• 2005 : Mémoires, Galerie Espace Croix-Baragnon, Toulouse. ST’ART, Strasbourg. Galerie IUFM-Confluences(s), Lyon. Galerie du Centre, Paris.
• 2006 : Galeria Dart, Barcelone. Museo del Castillo de Valderrobres, Espagne. Musée du Château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard. Bonjour Monsieur Ingres, Musée Beurnier-Rossel, Montbéliard.
• 2007: Mémoires, IUFM, Rouen. Bibliothèque universitaire, Angers. Galerie Wam, Caen. Espace Saint-Rémi, Bordeaux. Galerie du Fleuve, Paris.
• 2009 : Mémoires, Maison des arts d’Antony, Antony.
• 2010 : Mémoires et Filiations, Galeria Marta Traba & Fundação Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brésil[224].
• 2012 : Musée de Tessé, Le Mans. Mémoires et Filiations, Opéra de Lyon, Lyon.
• 2013 : Mémoires et filiations 1982-2012, La Corderie royale, Rochefort.
• 2015 : Mémoires et filiations, Galerie La Passerelle, Rouen.
  2018 : Braun-Vega, fenêtres d’art, d’âme et de vie, Maison de l’Unesco, Paris.
• 2022 : De BRAUN à BRAUN-VEGA – La métamorphose d’un artiste , Centre Culturel Anis Gras, Arcueil.
• 2024 : Herman Braun-Vega – Mémoires et Métissage par-delà les océans, FIAA, Le Mans.

Camille Bryen

(Nantes: 17 September 1907 - Paris: 8 May 1997)

• Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Paris, 1960
• Musée national d'Art moderne, Paris, 1973
• Galerie de Seine, Paris, February 1975
• Musée Underlinden, Colmar, 1986
• Galerie Callu Mérite, Paris, 1988; id. 1990
• Jacqueline Boutet-Loyer, Bryen and the challenge of eternal paintingCallu Merite Gallery, Paris, 1990

Félix BUHOT

(Valognes : 9 juillet 1847 – Paris :  26 avril 1898 )
Artiste peintre, graveur et illustrateur.

Pol Bury

(Haine-Saint-Pierre - La Louvière -Belgium: 26 April 1922 - 15th arrondissement of Paris: 27 September 2005).
Painter and sculptor, regent of Cinématoglyphe at the Collège de Pataphysique.

Claude Cahun

(Nantes: 25 October 1894 - Saint-Hélier (Jersey) 8 December 1954)

Alexander Calder

22 juillet 1898 à Lawnton, Pennsylvanie, USA ; 11 novembre 1976 à New York,État de New York, USA

Alexander Calder était un peintre et sculpteur américain.

Maria Callas

(New York: 2 December 1923 - Paris: 16 September 1977)

Jorge Camacho

(born January 5, 1934 in Havana, Cuba, and died March 30, 2011 in Paris)

Enrique Careaga

(Asunción, 30 August 1944 - ibídem, 9 May 2014 )

Étienne Carjat

(Fareins: 28 March 1828 - Paris: 8 March 1906)

Robert Carmet

Born in Paris on 12 January 1923, died in Soulac-sur-Mer on 14 February 2001.

Photographer for the Service d'information de la France combattante, and aviator for the Free French Air Forces (FAFL) from 1942 to 1944 in Brazzaville, Robert Carmet is at the side of Germaine Krüll, Jean Costa and Ellebé (Robert Lefebre). After the end of the conflict, he became head of the photo section in the press and information service of the general government of French Equatorial Africa until 1955.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

(Chanteloup-en-Brie: 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004 Montjustin, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)

Frédéric-Auguste Cazals

(1865-1941)

Draftsman, writer and illustrator.

César

(Marseille : 1^er January 1921 - Paris: 6 December 1998)

Paul Cézanne

(Aix-en-Provence : 19 janvier 1939 – Aix-en-Provence : 22 octobre 1906)

Marc Chagall

(Liozna: 7 July 1887 - Saint-Paul-de-Vence: 28 March 1985)

Cham

(Paris: 26 January 1818 – 6 September 1879)

Louis François Charon

(Versailles: 1783-1839)

Jules Cheret

Giorgio De Chirico

(Volos: 10 July 1888 - Rome: 20 November 1978)

Geneviève Claisse

(born in Quiévy - Nord and died on 30 April 2018 in Dreux -Eure-et-Loire)

A pupil of Auguste Herbin (1882-1960), whose catalogue raisonné she carefully compiled, she became a member of the Abstraction-Creation movement in 1958, forever adopting a geometric language.

Internationally known and his works are present in all the major museums and a retrospective is dedicated to him in France at the Matisse Museum of Cateau-Cambrésis in 2005.

Lucien Clergue

(Arles: 14 August 1934 - Nîmes: 15 November 2014)

Jean Cocteau

Born on 5 July 1889 in Maisons-Laffitte and died on 11 October 1963 in his house in Milly-la-Forêt. French poet, graphic designer, draftsman, playwright and filmmaker, member of the Académie française from 1955.

Robert Cohen

Ronald Colman

Charles Combe

(Dieulefit - Drôme: 16 July 1828; 6 September 1877)

Crow

(Liège, Belgique :  4 juillet 1922 – L’Isle-Adam, Val-d’Oise : 5 septembre 2010)

Peintre, graveur, sculpteur et céramiste néerlandais.
Inhumé selon son vœu à côté de Vincent van Gogh dans le cimetière d’Auvers-sur-Oise.

Jean Cortot

Jean Cortot (1925–2018) est un peintre et artiste français dont l’œuvre se distingue par une recherche constante sur les relations entre peinture, écriture et poésie. Formé à Paris à l’Académie de la Grande Chaumière, notamment auprès d’Othon Friesz, il s’inscrit dès l’après-guerre dans une génération d’artistes qui interroge le renouvellement du langage pictural.

Très tôt reconnu, Jean Cortot développe une œuvre singulière qui évolue de la figuration vers une peinture de plus en plus structurée par le signe, la lettre et le mot. À partir des années 1960, l’écriture devient un élément constitutif de sa pratique, non comme simple citation littéraire, mais comme matière plastique à part entière. Il collabore avec de nombreux écrivains et poètes, réalisant livres d’artistes, manuscrits peints et ensembles où le texte et l’image se construisent dans une relation étroite.

Son travail, profondément nourri par la littérature, se caractérise par une grande liberté formelle et une attention particulière au rythme, à la couleur et à la spatialisation du langage. Élu membre de l’Académie des beaux-arts en 2001, Jean Cortot laisse une œuvre importante, aujourd’hui conservée dans de nombreuses collections publiques et institutionnelles, et régulièrement présentée dans des expositions muséales en France et à l’étranger.

Expositions personnelles et monographiques

• Jean Cortot, peintre des mots — Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (2021)

• Présentations monographiques et accrochages dédiés — Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (années 2000–2020)

• Écritures peintes — Galerie Maeght, Paris (2017)

• Symphonie des calligraphies — Galerie Envy Fine Art, Pékin (2005), en collaboration avec le calligraphe Wang Yu Zhong

Expositions collectives (sélection historique)

• Dix ans de peinture française — Musée de Grenoble (1956)

• Expositions collectives de peinture française moderne — institutions européennes et internationales (années 1950–1970), notamment en Italie et en Europe centrale

• Expositions de dessin et d’art graphique français — musées en Pologne (années 1970)

Collections publiques et fonds institutionnels

Les œuvres de Jean Cortot sont conservées dans plusieurs collections publiques majeures, parmi lesquelles :

• Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris

• Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (fonds de livres d’artistes, manuscrits peints et œuvres graphiques)

• Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

• Museum of Modern Art, New York

• Musée Rolin, Autun

• Fonds patrimoniaux et bibliothèques publiques spécialisés dans le livre d’artiste et l’art graphique contemporain

Jean Coulon

A Lyon-based artist, Jean Coulon participated in the work La Vie lyonnaise : In the past, today (1898) with 650 colour illustrations and illuminated some precious books at the request of bibliophiles.

Jean Coulot

(Neuchâtel : 13 avril 1928 – Paris :  27 mars Peintre français d’origine suisse, appartenant à la nouvelle École de Paris.

Jean Cuillerat

(Paris, 8 décembre 1927 – Paris, 4 juin 1998)

Dado

(Cetinje-Yugoslavia: 4 October 1933 - Pontoise: 27 November 2010)

Salvador Dali

(Figueras: 11 May 1904 - 23 January 1989)

Agence dalmas

A French press and photojournalism agency founded in 1955 by journalist Louis Dalmas, which ceased trading in 1965; it is considered to be the first "magazine" agency.

George De Feure

Paris : 6 septembre 1868 , Paris : 26 novembre 1943

Colette Deblé

(Coucy-lès-Eppes: January 8, 1944)

Olivier Debré

(Paris: 14 April 1920-1 June 1999)
French painter, major representative of lyrical abstraction.

Maxime Defert

(born in Avalon, France on 11 May 1944)

Jean Degottex

(born in Sathonay-Camp on 25 February 1918, died in Paris on 9 December 1988)

Eugene Delacroix

(Charenton-Saint-Maurice: 26 April 1798 - Paris: 13 August 1863)

Eugène Delâtre

(Paris: 10 December 1864- 24 September 1938)

Robert Delaunay

(Paris: 12 April 1885 - Montpellier: 25 October 1941)

Sonia Delaunay

(Gradizhsk: 14 November 1885 - Paris: 5 December 1979)

Georges Delaw

Sedan: 4 September 1871 - Paris: 8 December 1938

Jean Demélier

(Poitiers - 1940)

Writer, poet, draughtsman and painter.

Art books, multiples and drawings

• Sketchbook - Oasis books - London, 1974
• Sketch - Jacques Bremond - Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, 1980
• The head turner - Poitiers, 1981
• Denature - Silkscreen prints by René Vidal, 1974
• The Biological Astronomere - Serigraphs by Daniel Mohen 1975
• Nutation - Silkscreen prints by Robert Einbeck, 1980
• Silent Flesh - Lithographs by Daniel Mohen, 1978
• Last Window - Sculpture by Michel Gérard, 1982
• First Splash - Sculpture by Michel Gérard, 1982
• The birth of the Angel - Lithographs by Abraham Hadad, 1985
• Flesh spinning top - etchings by Alexandre Bonnier, 1985
• Business Continuity Solution - Engravings Jan Arons, Amsterdam, 1988
• It snows in my night - Galerie édition Diane Manière, 1988
• Passage d'Amour - Lithographs by Jacqueline Blewanus, 1989
• River - Lithographs by Daniel Mohen, 1990
• Betalpha - Illustrations Jack Vanarsky, 1990
• Book Their - Jacqueline Blewanus, 1996
• Thing - Jacqueline Blewanus, 1999
• Agape - Poems and illustrations by Jean Demélier and Louise Girardin, 2001

Maurice Denis

(born November 25, 1870 in Granville in the Manche, died November 13, 1943 in Paris)

Nabi painter, decorator, engraver, theorist and art historian.

Orens Denizard

(Pontru: 8 May 1879 - Pari s: October 1965)

Marcellin Desboutin

(Cérilly, Allier: 26 August 1823 - Nice: 18 February 1902)

Erik Dietman

(Jönköping, Sweden: 11 September 1937; Paris: 28 June 2002)
Erik Dietman was a multidisciplinary artist: sculptor, painter and draughtsman.

André Dignimont

(Paris : 2 août 1891 – 4 février 1965)
Illustrateur, peintre et graveur français

Robert Doisneau

(Gentilly: April 14, 1912 - Montrouge: April 1, 1994)

Oscar Dominguez

(Canary Islands: 3 January 1906 - Paris: 31 December 1957)

Gustave Doré

(born 6 January 1832 in Strasbourg - died 23 January 1883 in Paris)

French engraver, painter, sculptor, illustrator and caricaturist.

Christian Dotremont

(Belgium: Tervuren, 12 December 1922 - Buizingen, 20 August 1979)

Draner

(Liège : 12 novembre 1833 – Paris : 30 août 1926)

Dresa

(Versailles: 11 January 1869 - Paris: 16 May 1929)

Robert Droulers

(Lille: 7 July 1920 - Paris: 27 October 1994)

lou Dubois

Albert Dubout

(Marseille : 15 May 1905 - Saint-Aunès : 27 June 1976)

Jean Dubuffet

(Le Havre, July 31, 1901 - Paris, May 12, 1985)

Fernand Dubuis

(Sion: 25 April 1908 - Sérigny: 2 September 1991)

Marcel Duchamp

(Blainville-Crevon: 28 July 1887 - Neuilly-sur-Seine: 2 October 1968)

Emilien Dufour

Raoul Dufy

(Le Havre : 3 juin 1877 – Forcalquier : 23 mars 1953)

Marcel Dumont

(France: 1921 - 1998)

Maryse Eloy

(born in Mont-Saint-Aignan, France, November 16, 1930).

Max Ernst

(Brühl, German Empire: 2 April 1891 - Paris: 1 April 1976)

Françoise Estachy

(1911-1993)

Maurice Estève

Culan: 2 May 1904 - 29 June 2001

Alekos Fassianos

(Athens 1935)

Greek painter known internationally for his figurative paintings, depicting the contemporary world in mythological terms.

Fatabola Agency

Karl Fischer

(Bismarckhütte: 21 October 1921 - Berlin: 22 September 2018)

Jean-Michel Folon

(Uccle ; Belgique : 1er mars 1934 – Mocano : 20 octobre 2005)

Jean-Louis Forain

(born in Rheims on October 23rd 1852 and died in Paris on July 11th 1931)

Philippe Foré

Leonard Foujita

(Tokyo - Japan :27 November 1886 ; Zurich - Switzerland :29 January 1968)

Painter, draftsman and engraver, illustrator, ceramist, photographer, filmmaker and stylist.

The son of a medical general in the Japanese army during the time of Emperor Mutsuhito, he grew up learning French while studying Western painting at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. After graduating in 1910, he left for Paris in 1913, embarking on a long sea crossing to Marseilles before reaching the capital and, in particular, the artists' quarter in Montparnasse.

Close to Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse or Fernand Léger, Foujita launched himself into painting with success during the Great War. In 1917, his first exhibition of one hundred and ten watercolours in a half-Japanese, half-gothic genre was a triumph. In 1924, he painted Youki, goddess of snow, for the Salon d'Automne. In 1930, he painted four paintings: Le Salon in Montparnasse, The Lion tamer, Three women and The Triumph of Life over Death.

After several years of a journey that took him notably to Latin America, he returned to Japan in 1933. Caught in the turmoil of war, he supported the militaristic action of his country, both through his paintings such as Senso-ga (or The Battle of the Khalka River) and his personal commitment. But, from 1945, he will know how to get closer to the United States in order to pursue his career in the West. We thus find him in New York and then in Paris in the early 1950s. Having obtained French nationality in 1955, converted to Christianity in 1959 before becoming a mystic by settling in the Chevreuse valley in Villiers-Le-Bâcle, Léonard Foujita still produced some remarkable works, such as the Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix chapel in Reims, which bears his name and where his remains now rest.

Complete References : www.fondation-foujita.org

Lars Fredrikson

(Stockholm: 4 April 1926 - Vevouil in Vaucluse: 18 March 1997)

François Ganeau

(1 May 1912 in Paris, France - 1983).
Artist decorator.

Eduardo Benito Garcia

Paul Gauguin

(born 7 June 1848 in Paris and died 8 May 1903 in Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands)

Paul Gavarni

(Paris: 13 January 1804 - Paris: 23 November 1866)

Jacques Germain

(Paris: 13 January 1915 - 17 July 2001)

Pupil at the Académie Moderne, directed by Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. In 1931, Blaise Cendrars and Fernand Léger advised his parents to send him to the Bauhaus. He arrived in Dessau in October 1931 and stayed for 2 semesters. He was the only Frenchman to study at the Bauhaus. He returned to Paris by bicycle in July 1932.

In October of the same year, he returned to Frankfurt, Germany, where he studied with the Constructivist painter Willi Baumeister.

When the Nazis came to power, he returned to Paris and worked in advertising design. In September 1936, Jacques Germain did his military service. War broke out a few years later, and the artist was taken prisoner and spent three years in captivity.

On his return to France, he devoted himself mainly to painting.

In 1949, he had his first solo exhibition in Paris.

Jacques Germain became one of the leading exponents of lyrical abstraction and took part in numerous international exhibitions.

Aaron Gerschel

(Niederroerdern: 29 October 1832 - 10 March 1907)

Hector Giacomelli

(Paris: 1 April 1822 - Menton: 1 December 1904)

Emile Gilioli

(Paris: 10 June 1911 - Paris: 19 January 1977)

Henri Goetz

(New York: 29 September 1909 - Nice: 12 August 1989)

"If I choose the non-figurative world, it's because I believe it is larger than the other. I believe that there is more to be discovered in the unknown than in the known. If the limit of the known is the unknown, then the opposite does not seem to be true."

Complete references : https://henrigoetz.com

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

(July 3, 1881 - October 17, 1962)

Avant-garde artist, painter, illustrator, member of both the first independent art group, Jack of Diamond, and the Der Blaue Reiter movement. She moved to Paris in 1921 where she lived until her death.

Georges Gorvel

(Paris: October 19, 1866 - January 18, 1938)

Painter, sculptor, draftsman and engraver, Georges Gorvel illustrated many works. In 1905, he exhibited alongside Henri Matisse at the Galerie Élie Faure. Georges Gorvel made many engravings for stamps, but also for other artists such as Raoul Dufy and Charles Guérin.

Marcel Goupy

(1886-1954)

Jean-Jacques Grandville

(Nancy: 13 September 1803 - Vanves : 17 March 1847)

Michel Granger

(Roanne : 13 octobre 1946)

Cary Grant

Eugène Grassset

Lausanne : 25 mai 1845 – Sceaux : 23 octobre 1917

Emilio Grau Sala

(Barcelone : 22 juin 1911- 21 juin 1975)

Henri Guilac

ODV Guillonnet

(Paris: 22 September 1872 - Montgeron: 25 September 1967)

Renato Guttuso

(Bagheria: 26 December 1911 - Rome: 18 January 1987)

Hans Hartung

(Leipzig: 21 September 1904 - Antibes 7 December 1989)

Raoul Hausmann

(Vienna, Austria: 12 July 1886 - Limoges: 1 July 1971)

Stanley William Hayter

(London: 27 December 1901 - Paris: 4 May 1988)

Jacques Hérold

(Romania: the 10 October 1910 - Paris: January 11, 1987)

Fernand Hertenberger

Fernand Hertenberger (1882-1970)a painter and illustrator born in Rheims, a pupil of T.-H. Fleury and Déchenaud, exhibited at the Paris Salon and illustrated several works including There of Huysmans and Colonel Chabert from Balzac. An important player in the Art Deco movement, he shared with his brother and artist Claude a house-studio built by the architect Henri Glaizot in 1921 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

David Hockney

(Bradford: 9 July 1937)

Gerard Hoet

(Zaltbommel: 22 August 1648, - The Hague: 2 December 1733)

Arnold Houbraken

(Dordrecht: 28 March 1660 - Amsterdam: 14 October 1719)

Charles Huard

(Paris: 2 June 1874 - Poncey-sur-l'Ignon: 30 March 1965)

Valentine Hugo

(Boulogne-sur-Mer: 16 March 1887 - Paris: 16 March 1968)

Loïs Hutton

(Gunnersbury: 28 December 1893 - Harrow: 16 March 1972)

Alexander Iacovleff

(1887-1938)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

born on 29 August 1780 in Montauban and died on 14 January 1867 in Paris

Lucien Jacques

(Varennes-en-Argonne : October 2, 1891 - Nice : April 11, 1961)

Bernard Jardel

(1932-1984)

Graduated in commerce and architecture at the Beaux-Arts, was for almost 20 years the commercial director of Schwartz-Haumont, by day, and a painter by night.

His work was called Optical Surrealism by Victor Vasarely.

Maurice Jardot

(1911 – 2002)

Job

(Bar-le-Duc : 25 November 1858 -Neuilly-sur-Seine : 15 September 1931)

Gustave Jundt

(Strasbourg: 21 June 1830 - Paris: 15 May 1884)

Dora Kallmus, known as Madame d'Ora

(Vienna: 20 March 1881- 28 October 1963 in Frohnleiten, Styria, Austria)

Lajos Kassák

Lajos Kassák (Érsekújvár, now Nové Zámky, Slovakia, then part of Austria-Hungary: 21 March 1887 - Budapest: 22 July 1967)
Hungarian painter and writer.

Théo Kerg

(Niederkorn : 2 juin 1909 – Chissey-en-Morvan : 4 mars 1993)

Fernand Khnopff

(Grembergen: 12 September 1858 - Brussels: 12 November 1921)

Frederick Kiessler

(Czernowitz, in Bucovina, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire: 22 September 1890 - New York on 27 December 1965)

Ed Koren

(New York : 13 décembre 1935 – Brookfield : 14 avril 2023)

Germaine Krull

Germaine Krull, born on 20 November 1897 in Wilda, a district of Poznań (then in the German Empire, now in Poland), died on 31 July 1985 in Wetzlar (Hessen), intèrege the Lehr-und Versuchsanstalt für Photographie, Chemiegraphie, Lichtdruck und Gravüre of Munich in 1916. His association with the extreme left and the anarchist milieu led to his arrest and sentence to death by the counter-revolutionaries. She fled to Berlin and frequented the Dadaists and the expressionists. After meeting the filmmaker Joris Ivensn, she moved to the Netherlands and experimented with architectural photography and collaborated with the magazines i-10 and From Filmliga.
Settled in Paris around 1925, Gallimard devoted a thin monograph to him, published in the collection Photographers New. She frequented the surrealists and collaborated on several books, including La Folle d'Itteville, published in August 1931. She then worked in Monaco for 5 years, then, after a stint in the Americas, she moved to Brazzaville, the capital of French Equatorial Africa, which joined the Free French in August 1940, where she headed the local propaganda service. She took part in the Provence landings and then in the liberation of the Struthof and Vaihingen concentration camps. As a war correspondent in Indochina from 1946, she travelled throughout South-East Asia, becoming the first director of the Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok. She returned to Germany in 1955. Her friend André Malraux, Minister of Culture, organizes her first major retrospective at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.

Chas Laborde

(Buenos Aires: 8 August 1886 - Paris: December 1941)

Théophile Lacaze

(1799 – 1846)

A FORGOTTEN ROMANTIC PAINTER

Born into a family of wine merchants in Libourne (Gironde) on June 15, 1799, Pierre Théophile Lacaze learned painting by himself and saw his first painting accepted at the Salon of 1824. Rewarded in 1827 at the exhibition of the Société Philomathique de Bordeaux, from 1830 onwards he adopted a romantic style particularly influenced by the works of Delacroix.

In 1834, he took part in the Bordeaux Exhibition for the benefit of the poor, presenting seven highly acclaimed works (six watercolours and one drawing): "... I am very pleased to be able to present this exhibition. Mr. Lacaze's delicious compositions were a great draw for the audience. A warm and vigorous colour, an incorrect drawing sometimes but always spiritual, a great naivety in the poses, a wise composition, a perfect harmony of shadows and light classify Mr. Lacaze as one of the most distinguished. »

In 1838, Lacaze was awarded two silver medals at the exhibition of the Société Philomathique de Bordeaux for his pastels and for the painting "The Late Romantic". Richard and the Moorish doctor. At Salon , Jesus blessing the children, A large-sized work of art that received the Bronze Medal and was acquired by Queen Marie-Amélie during her visit to the Salon and then exhibited in her apartments. This painting entered the Louvre Museum and was deposited in the chapel of the military school of Saint-Cyr on 21 June 1890, but was unfortunately destroyed during the Second World War.

Awarded at the 1839 Salon,  Richard and Dr. Moor is then  acquired by the King for his personal collection.

On 17 August 1840, the Commission des monuments historiques de la Gironde appointed Lacaze as a corresponding member in Libourne, with the title of history painter. The following year, he once again took part in the exhibition of the Société Philomathique de Bordeaux and was awarded the gold medal for his history paintings.

Having become a renowned painter, he received the Duke of Orleans and the Duke and Duchess of Nemours in his studio in Libourne.

Pierre Théophile Lacaze died on September 5, 1846.

The Libourne museum, which owns several of his works, organized the first retrospective of Lacaze's work in 1963.

Maurice Lalau

Maurice George-Élie Lalau was a French illustrator, draughtsman and painter, born on 27 July 1881 in Paris 9e and died in Paris 16e on 14 April 19611.

Wilfredo Lam

(Sagua La Grande, Cuba : 8 december 1902 - Boulogne-Billancourt : 11 September 1982)

Michel Larionov

Tiraspol: 3 June 1881 - Fontenay-aux-Roses: 10 May 1964

Marie Laurencin

(Paris: October 31, 1883 - June 8, 1956)

Paul-Albert Laurens

(Paris: 18 January 1870 - Toulon: 27 September 1934)

The Marshall

(Paris: 14 April 1928 – 7 April 2016)

Né en 1861 à Housse et mort en 1945 à Liège, François Maréchal est un peintre, dessinateur et graveur belge qui s’inscrit dans les mouvements du réalisme et du naturalisme.

Élève à l’Académie des beaux-arts de Liège, il est formé par Adrien de Witte, Jean-Mathieu Nisen, Charles Soubre, Émile D’heur ou encore Édouard van Marcke. Au cours de sa carrière, il se spécialise en eaux-fortes représentant surtout la région de Liège et ses habitants.

À partir de l’année 1905, il est professeur dans son lieu de formation, L’Académie des beaux-arts de Liège, et ce pendant 25 ans. Il dirige également cette institution de 1913 et 1920 et y crée le premier cours de gravure en 1921.

Thérèse Le Prat

In twenty years, Thérèse Le Prat photographed the actors in more than two hundred and fifty classical or modern plays, including Louis Jouvet, Alain Cuny, Maria Casarès, Gérard Philipe, Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar. Using photographic realism to make the most of the combinations offered by changes of costume, make-up and lighting, she created a highly personal body of work whose chief subject of inspiration is the mystery of the human face.

Pierre le-Tan

(Neuilly-sur-Seine: 5 June 19501 - Villejuif: 17 September 2019)

Charles Léandre

(Champsecret: 22 July 1862 - Paris: 24 May 1934)

Jean Lebedeff

Vladimir Lebedev

Saint Petersburg : 26 May 1891 - 21 November 1967

Bernard Lefebvre

Lefebvre Bernard dit Ellebé (1906 - 1992).

Born in Rouen on 27 March 1906, died in Rouen on 30 November 1992. Collaborator at the weekly L'Illustration from 1927 to 1940, he joined Free France in 1941 and from 1944 onwards became head of the photographic department of the Colonial Office of the Provisional Government of the Republic. After the Liberation, he became director of the photographic services of the regional daily newspaper Paris-Normandie. In 1949, he and his wife opened Photo Ellebé, a professional studio on Place Beauvoisine.

Fernand Léger

(born on 4 February 1881, in Argentan - Orne and died on 17 August 1955, in Gif-sur-Yvette - Essonne)

Jean Leppien

(Lüneburg, Germany : 8 April 1910 - Courbevoie :  the 19 October 1991)

Jacques Leroux

Foto Levi

André Lhote

(born in Bordeaux on 5 July 1885 and died in Paris on 25 January 1962)

Boris Lipnitzki

(Oster : 4 février 1887 – Lardy : 6 juillet 1971)

Guido Llinas

(Cuba : 23 March 1923 - Paris: 4 July 2005)

Manuel Luque

(Almeria : 1854 – Autun : 8 novembre 1924)

Donald Shaw Maclaughlan

(1876 – 1938)

Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, Donald Shaw MacLaughlan moved with his family to Boston and acquired his early knowledge of printers and printmaking at the Boston Public Library. He travelled to Europe, enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and pursued further studies with Jean Leon Gerome and Jean Paul Laurens. His first etchings date from 1899, He became acquainted with James NcNeill Whistler and other artists who created etchings and spent time studying the etchings of Rembrandt van Rijn and other old masters in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale. Both Rembrandt and Whistler would have major influences on his art. San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition showed seven of his prints and awarded him a gold medal. MacLaughlan also won medals in exhibitions in Buffalo, Leipzig and Rome. He was represented by the Albert Roullier Art Galleries in Chicago, which mounted several exhibitions of his work. London's Fine Art Society organized an exhibition of some two hundred of his works in 1926.

In 1931 he created a set of twelve etched views of Chicago, and the following year won a prize at the annual exhibition of the Society of Etchers in New York City. During his career he created some three hundred prints. In 1935 he was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design, New York City, and was elected a full member in 1938, the of his death at Marrakesh, Morocco.

René Magritte

(Lessines in Hainaut: 21 November 1898 - Brussels: 15 August 1967)

Gérard Malanga

(Born in New York City on March 20, 1943)

Poet, dancer, director and photographer.

Man Ray

(born 27 August 1890 in Philadelphia (United States), and died 18 November 1976 in Paris)

Vaiere Mara

(Rurutu, Polynésie Française 1936 – Paea, Tahiti, 2005)

Jean Marais

(Cherbourg : 11 décembre 1913 – Cannes : 8 novembre 1998)

André Marchand

(Aix: 10 February 1907 - Arles: 27 December 1977)

François Maréchal

(Housse 7 janvier 1861 – Liège 8 juillet 1945)

Né le 7 janvier 1861 à Housse dans la campagne wallone, François Maréchal aurait très probablement, comme son père et son arrière grand-père, exercé le métier d’armurier s’il n’avait croisé à 17 ans un certain Delbeke, décorateur qui excellait dans les natures mortes. Inspiré, Maréchal s’essaya au dessin, présentant à Delbeke ses chats, vaches, insectes et fleurs. Il put suivre son enseignement et intégrer l’Académie de Beaux-Art de Liège en 1879. 

Étudiant le matin auprès de Yan Marcke, Soubre et Dheur, il revêt l’après-midi la blouse du simple ouvrier peintre, marbrant des plinthes et des linteaux.

En 1888, Armand Rassenfosse lui permet d’explorer en profondeur les techniques de gravure. Profitant de sa presse à imprimer, Maréchal abandonne le pinceau pour la pointe d’acier : l’eau-forte devient sa technique de prédilection et la ville Liège son premier sujet. Entre 1888 et 1901, il grave 254 plaques sur sa ville d’adoption et sur ses environs. 

En 1898, son exposition au Cercle artistique et littéraire de Bruxelles consacre
sa réputation. Eekhoud, dans le Mercure de France, Sulzberger dans la Revue de Belgique, Fernand Khnopff dans le Studio, le designent comme l’un des meilleurs artistes wallons. 

En 1901, il obtient une bourse de la fondation Darchis pour séjourner en Italie ;
il visite Milan, Florence, s’établit à Rome puis à Tivoli et grave, entre 1902 et 1905, 80 eaux-fortes.  

De retour à Liège à partir de 1905, il grave, selon Vittorio Pica, « les variées et curieuses planches d’études d’animaux et de fleurs d’une facture minutieuse et patiente, qui [font]repenser à quelques albums de Hokusai ». Nommé professeur de dessin à l’Académie royale des Beaux-Arts, il en prend la direction entre 1913 à 1920. 

Son œuvre se compose de 728 gravures, chacune tirée à quelques dizaine d’exemplaires. 

Le cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins de Liège et les collections artistiques
de l’université de Liège (Musée Wittert) conservent de nombreuses gravures et dessins de François Maréchal. Ses œuvres sont également présentes dans les collections du Minneapolis Institute of Art, du musée d’Art wallon, du musée de la Vie wallonne, de la Province de Liège et du musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai.

André MARGAT

(Paris: 8 April 1903 - 10 February 1997)

Jean-Claude MARQUETTE

Born in 1946, member of the GAIV group (Groupe Art et Informatique de Vincennes), he is one of the pioneers of French digital art.

André Masson

(Born on 4 January 1896 in Balagny-sur-Thérain (Oise), and died on 28 October 1987 in Paris)

Henri Matisse

(born on 31 December 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France, and died on 3 November 1954 in Nice, France)

Roberto Matta

Roberto Matta (1911 - 2002), whose real name was Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurre, was originally from Chile.
After unsuccessfully studying architecture, he worked with Le Corbusier before travelling around Europe, where he became friends with Rafael Alberti, Federico Garcia Lorca, Alvar Aalto, Henry Moore, Roland Penrose and René Magritte.

His meeting with André Breton turned him into a Surrealist, contributing to the magazine Minotaur and met Yves Tanguy, who was to have a major influence on his work.

Mathurin Méheut

(Lamballe : 21 May 1882 - Paris: 22 February 1958)

Aldophe Menjou

Jean Messagier

(Paris: 13 July 1920 - Montbéliard: 10 September 1999)

Darius Milhaud

(Marseille: 4 September 1892 - Geneva: 22 June 1974)

Joan Miro

(Barcelona, Spain: 20 April 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, Spain: 25 December 1983)

Henry Monnier

(Paris: 7 June 1799 - Paris: 3 January 1877)

Jacques Monory

(born 25 June 19241, in Paris)

Henry Moore

(Castleford: 30 July 1898 - Perry Green: 31 August 1986)

Gustave Moreau

(Paris: 6 April 1826 - 18 April 1898)

François Morellet

(Cholet: 30 April 1926 - 11 May 2016)

Philippe Morisson

(born in Deauville in 1924 and died in Paris on 28 December 1994)

Philippe Morisson painted figuratively from 1940 to 1945. Then after a short period of lyrical abstraction, he turned to geometry in 1947. He exhibited at the Salon des Surindépendants in the 1950s, and got closer to the group at the Galerie Denise René where he exhibited in 1961 with Geneviève Claisse and Hugo Demarco.

Fikret Moualla

(Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey: 1903 - Reillanne, France: 20 July 1967)

Jules Mougin

( Marchiennes : 10 March 1912 - Rognes : 6 November 2010)

Willy Mucha

(Warsaw, Poland: 16 April 1905 - Paris: 2 March 1995)
Polish painter of surrealist abstraction.

Main exhibitions :

• Salon de Mai, Salon des comparaisons, Salon des Artistes indépendants, Paris
• Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo "Do Figuratismo- Ao Abstractinismo" 1949
• Art Gallery of Toronto, Canada " Contemporary art" 1949
• Royal Academy London "The school of Paris 1900 - 1950" 1951
• Musée de Nantes, "Ecole de Paris" 1958
• Tokyo, Japan "Art Français", 1959
• Chicago " Formit collection of Contemporary Art " 1961
• The School of Paris" Galerie Charpentier Paris
• Palace of the Kings of Majorca, Perpignan 1986
• Galerie Odile Oms, Céret 2005
• Thomas Montsarrat & Clementine Combes , Maison de la Catalanité, Willy Mucha Collioure 1940 -1950, Perpignan 2016

Musidora

(born in the 5th arrondissement of Paris on 23 February 1889 and died in the 14th arrondissement of Paris on 7 December 1957)

Paul Nadar

(Paris: 8 February 1856 - Paris: 1 September 1939)

Felix Nadar

Aurelie Nemours

(Paris: 29th October 1910 – 27 January 2005)

Marie Laure de Noailles

(Paris: 31 October 1902 - Paris: 29 January 1970)

Alexandre Noll

(Reims: 19 May 1890 - Fontenay-aux-Roses: 30 November 1970)

Farhad Ostovani

(Lahijan, Iran: 1950)

Zaven Paré

(Bordj El Kiffan: October 1961)

Gabriel Paris

Jules Pascin

(born on 31 March 1885 in Vidin (Bulgaria), and died on 2 June 1930 in Paris

Marcel Pevsner

Jean Piaubert

(Feydieu, Le Pian, Gironde: 27 January 1900 and Paris: 28 January 2002 )

Roger Pic

(Paris: 15 September 1920 - 3 December 2001)
French reporter, photographer, photojournalist and film-maker.

Bernard Picart

(Paris: 11 June 1673 - Amsterdam: 8 May 1733)

Pablo Picasso

(Malaga - Spain, October 25, 1881 - Mougins - Alpes-Maritimes / France, April 8, 1973)

Erio Piccagliani

James Pichette

Brother of the poet Henri Pichette, James Pichette (1920-1996) exhibited for the first time at the salon des Super-independent in 1947, then Salon des réalités nouvelles in 1950. Close to Huguette Arthur Bertrand, he defended lyrical abstraction at the Salon of October 1952-53.

 "A curious feast of the spirit is organized in each of James Pichette's works - but without seeming to touch it, he also suggests some of the thousand and one secrets of painting, courteously hidden under the towers and detours of a modern calligrapher monk. »

(Charles Estienne, 1951)

Édouard Pignon

Bully-les-Mines: 12 February 1905 - La Couture-Boussey: 14 May 1993

Serge Poliakoff

(Moscow: 8 January 1900- Paris: 12 October 1969 )

Mario Prassinos

(Constantinople: 30 July 1916 - Avignon: 23 October 1985)

Greek-born French non-figurative painter of the New School of Paris. In 1942, he became friends with Raymond Queneau and collaborated with the NRF publishing house, for which he created book models and NRF cartonnages, sometimes known as cartonnages Prassinos or "reliés Bonet-Prassinos".

Edward Quinn

(Dublin: 20 February 1920 - Altendorf: January 1997)

Quint

(Paris: 18 January 1884 - Strasbourg: 9 October 1953)

Benjamin Rabier

(La Roche-sur-Yon : 30th December 1864 - Faverolles : 10 October 1939)

Armand Rassenfosse

(Liège: 6 August 1862 - 28 January 1934)

Jean Pierre Raynaud

(Courbevoie: 20 April 1939)

Paul Rebeyrolle

(born November 3, 1926 in Eymoutiers - Haute-Vienne, died February 7, 2005 in Boudreville - Côte-d'Or)

Ethel Reed

Félix Régamay

(Paris: 7 August 1844 - Juan-les-Pins: 5 May 1907)

Felix Regamey

(Paris: 7 August 1844; Juan-les-Pins: 5 May 1907)

Cartoonist in Le Journal amusant, Le Boulevard, L'Indépendance parisienne, La Vie parisienne, Les Faits-Divers illustrés, Félix Regamey founded in September 1870, the Public Salute. Militant under the Paris Commune and had to go into exile in London for several years after the failure of the insurrection.
Friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine, he helped them financially when they arrived in England in 1872.

He then left for the United States and worked for Graphic and Harper's Weekly. In 1876, in Philadelphia, during the World's Fair, he met Émile Guimet again, whom he had met in London four years earlier. The two began a long journey that would take them to Japan, China, Southeast Asia and India before returning to Europe.
Régamey's almost ethnographic watercolours and drawings were presented at the Universal Exhibition of 1878 and published the same year in the Japanese walks of Guimet.

In 1881, he was appointed inspector of drawing for the schools of the City of Paris.

References: Bernard Desmars , Félix Regamey, January 2018 on http://www.charlesfourier.fr

Auguste Renoir

Édouard Riou

(Saint-Servan : 2 décembre 1833 – Paris : 26 janvier 1900)

Albert Robida

(Compiègne: 14 May 1848 - Neuilly-sur-Seine : 11 October 1926)

Auguste Rodin

(Paris: 12 November 1840; Meudon: 17 November 1917)

William P. ROMANS

Félicien Rops

(Namure: 7 July 1833 - Essonnes: 23 August 1898)

Georges Rouault

(Paris, 27 May 1871-Paris, 13 February 1958)

Edmond Adolphe Rudaux

(February 10, 1840, Verdun - July 1908, Donville-les-Bains)

Yves Saint-Laurent

(1936–2008) est un couturier français majeur du XXᵉ siècle, fondateur de la maison Yves Saint Laurent en 1961.

Bortnyik Sandor

Nicolas Schöffer

(Kalocsa, Hungary: 6 September 1912 - Paris: 8 January 1992)

Antonio Segui

(Córdoba: 11 January 1934 - Buenos Aires: 26 February 2022)

A painting student at the Beaux-Arts de Córdoba, he completed his training and his eye during a trip to Europe and Africa in the early 1950s, during which Seguí attended painting and sculpture courses at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and Madrid. Initially inspired by German figurative painters such as Otto Dix and George Grosz, his first works reflected a certain irony of the world.

On his return to Argentina, he organised his first exhibition in 1957, before returning to Latin America, stopping off in Mexico to study all the engraving techniques, particularly those used by muralists.

Antonio Seguí finally settled in Paris after representing Argentina at the 1963 Biennale. His style evolved towards a more absurd and humorous figuration that brought him closer to Ferdinand Léger and Diego Rivera: he used multiple drawing, painting and engraving techniques in urban worlds bursting with colour. The teeming city is an anonymous theatre of busy characters under their hats.

His work is exhibited worldwide in over a hundred museums and galleries.

Jean-Jacques Sempé

(Pessac: 17 August 1932)

Paul Sérusier

(Paris: 9 November 1864 - Morlaix: 7 October 1927)

Michel Seuphor

(Antwerp : 10 March 1901 – February 12, 1999)

Jeanloup Sieff

(Paris: 30 November 1933 - Paris: 20 September 2000)

Paul Signac

Jospeh Sima

(born at Jaroměř, Hradec Králové region, on 18 March 1891 and died in Paris on 24 July 1971)

Siné

(Paris: 31st December 1928 – 5 May 2016)

Henry Somm

(Rouen: 29 February 1844 - Paris: 14 March 1907)

Ettore Sottsass

(Innsbruck: 14 September 1917 - Milan: 31 December 2007)

Italian architect and designer, close to the anti-establishment Antidesign movement and founder of the post-modern group Memphis, whose creations are distinguished by their clean lines and shimmering, plain colours.

Daniel Spoerri

(Galati - Romania : 27 March 1930)

Fausta Squatriti

(Milan, 30 septembre 1941 – Milan, 23 avril 2024)

Fausta Squatriti est une artiste plasticienne italienne.

Henri de Sta

Henri de Sta, of his real name Henri de Saint-Alary, is a French draughtsman and illustrator born in Versailles in 1846, who died in 1920. He made many cartoons for the press, notably for The Black Cat (from 1892), Mame, Le Paris Bouffon (1885), The Laughter (1897) and The Charivari (1900). He also illustrated works for young people: The Moral and Wonderful Tales, The Week of Suzette and Le Petit Journal Illustré de la Jeunesse.

Nicolas de Staël

(Saint Petersburg: 23 December 1913 [5 January 1914 in the Gregorian calendar] - Antibes: 16 March 1955)

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

Leopold Survage

(born in Moscow on 31 July 1879 and died in Paris on 31 October 1968)

Karin Székessy

Karin Székessy est une photographe allemande née le 17 avril 1938 à Essen.
Formée entre 1957 et 1959 à l’Institut de photojournalisme de Munich, elle débute professionnellement dès la fin des années 1950.
De 1960 à 1966, elle travaille comme photographe de reportage pour la revue Kristall.
À partir de 1963, elle développe une œuvre personnelle centrée sur le nu féminin, le portrait et la figure humaine.
Entre 1967 et 1969, elle enseigne la photographie de mode à la Werkkunstschule de Hambourg.
Devenue indépendante au début des années 1970, elle collabore avec Der Spiegel, ZEITmagazin, Phot and Graphis.
Son travail privilégie le noir et blanc, la lumière naturelle et une composition d’inspiration classique.
En 1971, elle épouse l’artiste Paul Wunderlich, avec lequel elle entretient un dialogue esthétique durable.
Elle reçoit plusieurs distinctions, dont le Prix Spezial de la Triennale de Freiburg (1977) et le Kodak Fotobuchpreis (1978).
Elle publie plusieurs ouvrages de référence, parmi lesquels Les Filles dans l’Atelier (1969) et Dialogues (Kerber, 2015).
Ses œuvres sont exposées internationalement depuis les années 1970.
Des rétrospectives lui sont consacrées au Fotomuseum de Brême (1993) et au Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (2008).
Ses photographies figurent dans des collections publiques et privées européennes.
Karin Székessy est aujourd’hui considérée comme une figure majeure de la photographie artistique allemande contemporaine.

Pierre Tal Coat

Pierre Tal Coat (born Pierre Jacob: 12 December 1905 - Clohars-Carnoët; 12 June 1985 - Saint-Pierre-de-Bailleul)

Born in 1905 in Clohars-Carnoët, ten kilometres from Quimperlé (Finistère), Pierre Jacob of his real name, lost his father in 1915 who died on the Argonne front. and obtained a scholarship as a ward of the Nation which enabled him to enter the higher primary school of Quimperlé. Moulder and ceramic painter at the Henriot earthenware factory in Quimper in 1924, he drew in pencil, charcoal or pastel, characters and landscapes of the Breton countryside.

Arriving in Paris in 1924, Tal Coat met the painter Émile Compard, met Auguste Fabre and Henri Bénézit, and exhibited in their gallery under the pseudonym Tal Coat ("Front de bois" in Breton). From 1930, he became friends with Francis Gruber, André Marchand, Gertrude Stein, Francis Picabia, Ernest Hemingway, Alberto Giacometti, Balthus, Antonin Artaud, Tristan Tzara and Paul-Émile Victor. In 1932, he became a member of the group Forces nouvelles. In 1940, Tal Coat went to Aix-en-Provence with André Marchand, a city where many artists, including Charles-Albert Cingria and Blaise Cendrars, took refuge. In 1941, he took part in the exhibition of the Twenty young painters of French tradition organized by Jean Bazaine and exhibited at the Galerie de France in 1943. Returning to Paris in 1945, he took part in the first Salon de Mai, then returns the following year to Aix, where he meets André Masson, the philosopher Henri Maldiney and the poet André du Bouchet, who will remain his closest friends. His painting then becomes non-figurative.

With the artists of the new École de ParisThe Galerie de France (from 1943 to 1965), the Maeght Gallery (from 1954 to 1974), Benador Gallery (from 1970 to 1980), then the H-M Gallery, the Clivages Gallery and the Berthet-Aittouarès Gallery regularly exhibited his paintings. In 1956, sixteen of his paintings are presented at the Venice Biennale with those of Jacques Villon and Bernard Buffet. Alongside Joan Miró and Raoul Ubac, he collaborated in 1963 on the Maeght Foundation's work with a mosaic for the entrance wall and in 1968 he received the national grand prize in the arts. A retrospective exhibition was devoted to him at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1976.

Yves Tanguy

(Paris: 5 January 1900 - Woodbury: 15 January 1955)

Antoni Tàpies

(born on 12 December 1923 in Barcelona where he died on 6 February 2012)

Jacques Tardi

(Valencia : 30th August 1946)

Hervé Télémaque

(born 5 November 1937 in Port-au-Prince)

James Tissot

(Nantes: 15 October 1836 - Chenecey-Buillon: 8 August 1902)

Louis Titz

(Bruges : 24 June 1859 - Brussels: 1932)

Roland Topor

(Paris: 7 January 1938 - 16 April 1997)

Joaquín Torres García

(born 28 July 1874 in Montevideo, Uruguay, and died 8 August 1949 in Montevideo)

Uruguayan / Catalan artist, painter, sculptor, novelist, writer, teacher, etc.

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

Gérard Traquandi

Marseille: 24 June 1952.

The artist experiments with several techniques and media: painting, sculpture and photography.

Alexandre Trauner

(Budapest, Austria-Hungary: 3 August 1906 - Omonville-la-Petite, Manche: 5 December 1993)
Film set designer.

Pham Ngoc Tuan

Vietnamese artist born in 1939.

Edgard Tytgat

(Brussels: 28 April 1879 - Woluwe-Saint-Lambert: 1957)

Raoul Ubac

(Malmedy or Cologne: 31 August 1910; 24 March 1985 Dieudonne - France)

Marcel Ulrich

Yoshitora Utagawa

(Edo [Tokyo]: 1836 - 1880)

Yoshiume Utagawa

(1829-1897)

Yves Vacarisas

(France, 1935 – France, 2020)

Félix Vallotton

Lausanne: 28 December 1865 - Neuilly-sur-Seine: 29 December 1925

Bram van Velde

(Zoeterwoude, Leiden: 19 October 1895 - Grimaud: 28 December 1981) Dutch painter and lithographer.

Vladimir Velickovic

(Belgrade - Yugoslavia: 11 August 1935; Split - Croatia: 29 August 2019)

French painter, draughtsman and engraver of Yugoslav origin.

André Verdet

(Nice: 4 August 1913 - Saint-Paul-de-Vence: 19 December 2004)

Giuseppe Verdi

(Roncole: 10 October 1813 - Milan: 27 January 1901)

Fabienne Verdier

Fabienne Verdier (née en 1962 à Paris) est une peintre française contemporaine reconnue pour son langage pictural abstrait qui explore l’énergie, le mouvement et les forces naturelles. Après des études aux Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, elle part étudier la peinture traditionnelle chinoise auprès de maîtres en Chine pendant près de dix ans, expérience qui marquera profondément sa pratique. De retour en Europe, elle développe une gestuelle abstraite qui fusionne calligraphie orientale et abstraction occidentale, utilisant parfois des pinceaux monumentaux et des techniques innovantes intégrant le mouvement du corps entier. Son travail a été exposé internationalement et intégré dans d’importantes collections publiques et muséales.

Sélection d’expositions personnelles

• Mute — Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, Paris (2025-2026)
• Aria — Waddington Custot, Londres et Paris (2026)
• Retables — Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris ; Waddington Custot, Londres (2024)
• La Mouvance de la Matière — Château Lynch-Bages, Pauillac (2023)
• Im Auge des Kosmos — Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken (2022)
• Alchimie d’un vitrail — Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine (2022)
• Le chant des étoiles — Musée Unterlinden, Colmar (2022-2023)
• Sur les terres de Cézanne — Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence (2019)
• Nombreuses autres expositions personnelles en galeries et institutions européennes et internationales depuis les années 2010.

Présence dans les collections muséales et institutions publiques

Les œuvres de Fabienne Verdier figurent dans plusieurs collections publiques et muséales majeures, notamment :

Collections permanentes

• Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne (Paris)
• Musée Unterlinden (Colmar)
• Musée Granet (Aix-en-Provence)
• Musée Camille Claudel (Nogent-sur-Seine)
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
• Nasjonalmuseet (Oslo)
• Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich)
• Saarland Museum – Moderne Galerie (Saarbrücken)
• Fondation Hubert Looser / Kunsthaus Zürich
• Collection Pinault (Paris, Venise)

Œuvres et installations notables

• Vitraux et installations permanentes réalisés pour le Musée Camille Claudel
• Ensembles de peintures abstraites acquises par le Musée Unterlinden
• Œuvres monumentales intégrées à plusieurs collections publiques européennes

Thierry Vernet

(Le Grand-Saconnex, February 12, 1927 - Paris, October 1, 1993)

Jacques Verroust

Claude Viallat

(Nîmes: 18 May 1936)

Pierre-Eugène Vibert

(Carouge: 16 February 1875 - Carouge: 1 January 1937)

Maria Helena Vieira da silva

(born in Lisbon on 13 June 1908 and died in Paris on 6 March 1992)

Jacques Villeglé

(Quimper: 27 March 1926 - Paris: 6 June 2022)

Jacques Villon

(Damville - Eure: 31 July 1875; Puteaux - Hauts-de-Seine: 9 June 1963)

Born Gaston Émile Duchamp, second son of Eugène and Lucie Duchamp, the future Jacques Villon is the elder brother of the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918), the painter, sculptor and author Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and the painter Suzanne Duchamp (1889-1963).

In 1904-1905, he studied at the Académie Julian. In 1911, he organized a discussion group at home with his brothers Raymond and Marcel, which met regularly with artists and critics such as Francis Picabia, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger and others who would soon be known as the "Académie Julian". group of Puteaux.

In 1913, Villon, seven large dry points, cubist masterpieces, where the shapes break into obscured pyramidal planes. He exhibited at the Armory Show in New York and his fame grew so much that by the 1930s he was better known in the United States than in Europe.

The Louis Carré Gallery organized an exhibition of his work in Paris in 1944. In 1950, he received the Carnegie Prize and in 1954 he was named Commander of the Legion of Honour. The following year, he received the commission for the stained glass windows of the cathedral in Metz, France. In 1956, he was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale.

Michel-Henri Viot

(Rouen : 6 mars 1941)

Isabelle Waldberg

(Oberstammheim, Switzerland: 1911 - Chartres: 12 April 1990)

Herwarth Walden

(Berlin: 16 September 1878 - Saratov in the USSR : 31 October 1941)

Herman Armour Webster

Born in 1878 in New York City, Herman Armour Webster went on to The Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and upon graduation he sailed to Europe to attend the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris. He reached Chicago in, 1901, and revealed to his family a desire to pursue the artist's life in Paris. After spending two years unsuccessfully pursuing a business career in America, Webster enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he joined the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens, the Paris academician and professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He met Donald Shaw MacLaughlan and became interested in etching after viewing a portfolio of prints made by the visionary French artist Charles Méryon. Webster also took lessons from French printmaker Eugène Béjot.

His reputation grew quickly with the issuance of additional prints, and in 1907 Webster was made an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in London, as well as a member of both the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the National Academy of Design. In 1915 Webster was awarded the Gold Medal at The Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.

Herman Armour Webster died in Paris in 1970. In 1974 his personal papers, reference articles, correspondence, and estate prints were placed in the Archives of American Art, at the Smithsonian Institution, as part of a commemorative exhibition of his work held by the National Collection of Fine Arts, and are preserved as an archive.

Wols

(Berlin: 27 May 1913 - Paris: 1 September 1951)

Zhu Xinjian

(1953–2014)

Peintre et dessinateur chinois, Zhu Xinjian est né en 1953 à Dufang (province du Jiangsu). Il a suivi une formation au Nanjing Art Institute (南京艺术学院), dont il est diplômé en 1980, avant de commencer à enseigner dans cette même institution. Il remporte la médaille d’argent à la VIᵉ Exposition nationale d’Art de Chine au début des années 1980.

À partir du milieu des années 1980, Zhu Xinjian séjourne à Paris, En 1990, il expose à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Paris (France), en 1993, au Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxelles (Belgique), et en 1994, à l’École du Cinéma de Munich (Allemagne).

Cette étape  marque l’élargissement de son vocabulaire plastique, introduisant une hybridation entre traditions chinoises (peinture lettrée, calligraphie) et approches occidentales du corps et du dessin. À son retour en Chine, Zhu poursuit son enseignement et ses expositions tout en consolidant une œuvre personnelle considérée comme l’une des plus singulières du mouvement dit de la “new literati painting”. Il décède à Pékin en février 2014.

Expositions personnelles

• Fin des années 1980 — Expositions personnelles, Paris (galerie privée).

• 2002 - Zhu Xinjian Painting Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou.

• 2014 - Modern Recluse: Hermit Spirits of Zhu Xinjian, Today Art Museum, Pékin (ensemble rétrospectif).

• 2024–2025 - The Girl Next Door – The (New) Era of Zhu Xinjian, L+/Lucie Chang Fine Arts, Hong Kong.

• 2020 - Gone with the Tale: The Collection of Zhu Xinjian’s Drama-Themed Works, Nanjing East Gallery, Nanjing.

Expositions collectives

• 1989 - The New Literati Painting Exhibition (中国新文人画展), National Art Museum of China, Pékin.

• 2004 - New Freehand Chinese Ink Painting Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Pékin.

• Années 1990–2000 — Expositions collectives internationales (Europe et Asie), notamment en Belgique et en Allemagne.

Yvaral

(born January 25, 1934 in Paris)

Son of Victor Vasarely, Yvaral co-founded the visual art research group (GRAV) in 1960 with Horacio Garcia Rossi, François Morellet, Francisco Sobrino, Joel Stein and Julio Le Parc.

Zanton

Unica Zürn

(Berlin-Grunewald: 6 July 1916 - Paris: 19 October 1970)