Jean Fournier: a Tribute

18.09 - 19.12.2026

Jean Fournier: a Tribute

18.09 - 19.12.2026

Jean Fournier: a Tribute

18.09 - 19.12.2026

ABOUT

In the run-up to the 80th anniversary of Galerie Dina Vierny, to be celebrated in January 2027, this exhibition pays tribute to Jean Fournier, a leading figure of the Parisian abstract art scene from 1964 to 2006, who passed away twenty years ago and whose gallery closed its doors for good in 2024. Bringing together a selection of works by artists he championed, the exhibition runs from 18 September to 10 November at our gallery at 53 Rue de Seine.

Nothing marked out this butcher's son from Rue Bonaparte as a future arbiter of taste in the art world of the second half of the twentieth century. A bookseller from 1945, he opened a bookshop-gallery on Avenue Kléber in 1954, where, the following year, he had a pivotal encounter with Simon Hantaï.

For over forty years, Fournier championed a demanding style of painting, in which colour and gesture became languages in their own right. He accompanied Hantaï through one of the most radical pictorial ventures of his time, introduced and championed Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell and Jean-Paul Riopelle in Paris, and supported Judit Reigl, Jean Degottex and Shirley Jaffe with the same conviction. From one side of the Atlantic to the other, his discerning eye brought together celebrated strands of art history and profoundly reshaped the face of post-war painting.

Bringing together many of his artists around Blue Figure (1960), Fournier's favourite painting, the exhibition captures the power and coherence of a vision that spanned half a century of painting. It runs alongside the exhibition the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris is devoting, from 21 July 2026 to 4 January 2027, to Stéphane Bordarier — Fournier's last great discovery, whom Galerie Dina Vierny continues to represent today.


Artists : JAMES BISHOP, STÉPHANE BORDARIER, JEAN DEGOTTEX, SAM FRANCIS, SIMON HANTAÏ, SHIRLEY JAFFE, JOAN MITCHELL, JUDIT REIGL, JEAN PAUL RIOPELLE, CLAUDE VIALLAT

INSTALLATION VIEWS

EXHIBITED WORKS

Sam Francis
Blue figure (Blue IV)
1960

Oil on canvas 230.5 x 200.6 cm
Simon Hantaï
Blancs
1973

Acrylic on canvas 240 x 220 x 2.3 cm
James Bishop
Reading
1965

Oil on canvas 199 x 190 cm
Shirley Jaffe
C 3-2-1-
1972

Oil on canvas 130 x 195 cm
Stéphane Bordarier
2O.VI.2023
2023

Oil and acrylic on canvas 190 x 151 cm
Jean Degottex
Et dix mille choses...
1958

Oil on canvas 128.6 x 197 cm
Jean Paul Riopelle
À la plante des pieds
1958

Oil on canvas 89 x 115 cm
Simon Hantaï
Étude
1969

Oil on canvas 47 x 38 cm
Judit Reigl
Éclatement
1955

Oil on canvas 80 x 114.4 cm

Sam Francis

Blue figure (Blue IV)

1960

Oil on canvas

230.5 x 200.6 cm

Simon Hantaï

Blancs

1973

Acrylic on canvas

240 x 220 x 2.3 cm

James Bishop

Reading

1965

Oil on canvas

199 x 190 cm

Shirley Jaffe

C 3-2-1-

1972

Oil on canvas

130 x 195 cm

Stéphane Bordarier

2O.VI.2023

2023

Oil and acrylic on canvas

190 x 151 cm

Jean Degottex

Et dix mille choses...

1958

Oil on canvas

128.6 x 197 cm

Jean Paul Riopelle

À la plante des pieds

1958

Oil on canvas

89 x 115 cm

Simon Hantaï

Étude

1969

Oil on canvas

47 x 38 cm

Judit Reigl

Éclatement

1955

Oil on canvas

80 x 114.4 cm

EXHIBITED ARTISTS

Vladimir YANKILEVSKY

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Vladimir YANKILEVSKY

Aped quas parum qui beaquae preped eum volupitae odis re culpa volor autes nesciis am inus veliquibus. Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel

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Simon HANTAÏ

Simon Hantaï (1922 – 2008) is a French painter of Hungarian origin, whose work is one of the major contributions to abstract art in the 20th century. He showed a passion for art from an early age, and undertook academic training a...
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Stéphane Bordarier

Born in 1953, Stéphane Bordarier lives and works in Nîmes. Since the early 1980s, he has been exploring the ways in which color can occupy and shape a surface. Drawing inspiration from the avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s, from postw...
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Jean Degottex

Jean Degottex was born in 1918 in Sathonay, near Lyon. A self-taught artist, he began painting around 1939 during a stay in North Africa. Upon returning to France, he exhibited in Paris from 1941 works close to Lyrical Abstraction, an e...
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Judit REIGL

Judit Reigl is a painter who was in turn surreal, abstract or figurative. After arriving in France in 1950 after eight clandestine attempts to cross the Iron Curtain, Judit Reigl found Simon Hantaï, a fellow student at the Beaux Arts in...

Simon HANTAÏ

Stéphane Bordarier

Jean Degottex

Judit REIGL

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ABOUT

In the run-up to the 80th anniversary of Galerie Dina Vierny, to be celebrated in January 2027, this exhibition pays tribute to Jean Fournier, a leading figure of the Parisian abstract art scene from 1964 to 2006, who passed away twenty years ago and whose gallery closed its doors for good in 2024. Bringing together a selection of works by artists he championed, the exhibition runs from 18 September to 10 November at our gallery at 53 Rue de Seine. Nothing marked out this butcher's son from Rue Bonaparte as a future arbiter of taste in the art world of the second half of the twentieth century. A bookseller from 1945, he opened a bookshop-gallery on Avenue Kléber in 1954, where, the following year, he had a pivotal encounter with Simon Hantaï. For over forty years, Fournier championed a demanding style of painting, in which colour and gesture became languages in their own right. He accompanied Hantaï through one of the most radical pictorial ventures of his time, introduced and championed Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell and Jean-Paul Riopelle in Paris, and supported Judit Reigl, Jean Degottex and Shirley Jaffe with the same conviction. From one side of the Atlantic to the other, his discerning eye brought together celebrated strands of art history and profoundly reshaped the face of post-war painting. Bringing together many of his artists around Blue Figure (1960), Fournier's favourite painting, the exhibition captures the power and coherence of a vision that spanned half a century of painting. It runs alongside the exhibition the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris is devoting, from 21 July 2026 to 4 January 2027, to Stéphane Bordarier — Fournier's last great discovery, whom Galerie Dina Vierny continues to represent today. Artists : JAMES BISHOP, STÉPHANE BORDARIER, JEAN DEGOTTEX, SAM FRANCIS, SIMON HANTAÏ, SHIRLEY JAFFE, JOAN MITCHELL, JUDIT REIGL, JEAN PAUL RIOPELLE, CLAUDE VIALLAT

EXHIBITED WORKS

Sam Francis

1960

Blue figure (Blue IV)

1960

Oil on canvas

230.5 x 200.6 cm

Simon Hantaï

1973

Blancs

1973

Acrylic on canvas

240 x 220 x 2.3 cm

James Bishop

1965

Reading

1965

Oil on canvas

199 x 190 cm

Shirley Jaffe

1972

C 3-2-1-

1972

Oil on canvas

130 x 195 cm

Stéphane Bordarier

2023

2O.VI.2023

2023

Oil and acrylic on canvas

190 x 151 cm

Jean Degottex

1958

Et dix mille choses...

1958

Oil on canvas

128.6 x 197 cm

Jean Paul Riopelle

1958

À la plante des pieds

1958

Oil on canvas

89 x 115 cm

Simon Hantaï

1969

Étude

1969

Oil on canvas

47 x 38 cm

Judit Reigl

1955

Éclatement

1955

Oil on canvas

80 x 114.4 cm

MULTIMEDIAS

EXHIBITED ARTISTS

Vladimir YANKILEVSKY

Aped quas parum qui beaquae preped eum volupitae odis re culpa volor autes nesciis am inus veliquibus. Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvelEt ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel

Vladimir YANKILEVSKY

Aped quas parum qui beaquae preped eum volupitae odis re culpa volor autes nesciis am inus veliquibus. Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel Rum fuga. Et ernam, que minvel

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Simon HANTAÏ

artiste image a la une

Stéphane Bordarier

artiste image a la une

Jean Degottex

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Judit REIGL

PUBLICATIONS

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TITRE DE L’ARTICLE

Dimensions, technique, date
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À PROPOS

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