Aristide Maillol was one of the most famous sculptors of his day. His work, based on ample forms developed from the female nude but simplified to the extreme of a pure outline, is silent and represents a true artistic revolution that would lead to ...

Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis. The son of a grain merchant and an amateur painter, Matisse did not discover his passion for art until many years later. In 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War, his ...

Born in 1095 in Angoulême, Robert Couturier studied lithography in Paris and quickly caught the attention of Aristide Maillol in 1928. Maillol was struck by the “mal-foutu” (poorly-made) aspect of Couturier’s sculpture: ...

Born in Kariya, Japan, in 1932, On Kawara grew up in an intellectual community marked by a cultural and religious diversity, including Shinto, Buddhist and Christian references. He was only 13 years old when World War II ended with the bombing of ...

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 Bu ...

Serge Poliakoff is a painter the major figures of the École de Paris at the beginning of the year 1900 in Moscow. This artisit is the thirteenth of fourteen children. His father is a supplier of horses for the Russian army and owns a racehorse st ...

Son of a boatman, Camille Bombois went through various professions, such as farm boy, circus wrestler or bobinier, before devoting himself fully to painting.

He moved to Paris in 1907 and, on his return from the war of 1914 – 1918, decide ...

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 Lyri ...