Jean Degottex
(1918-1988)
Jean Degottex, Et dix mille choses..., 1958, Oil on canvas, 197 x 133 cm

Biography

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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 early commitment that earned him the Kandinsky Prize in 1951. By the late 1940s, Degottex moved away from figuration to engage in an abstraction nourished both by his experience of the world and by encounters with writers and thinkers. In the mid-1950s, he drew closer to André Breton and the…

Galerie

Jean Fournier, by Molly Warnock

03.09.2026

"A bookdealer by training, Jean Fournier began staging exhibitions in the Librairie Kléber (soon to be known as the Galerie Kléber) in 1954, galvani...

EXHIBITIONS

Selection of solo exhibitions

2022

A la ligne, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris.

Jean Degottex, Signe, Ecriture, Ligne, Alexis Lartigue Fine Art, Paris.

2021

Reports, Galerie ETC, Paris.

2015

Je voudrais que ma peinture soit une plus grande respiration, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris.

Selection of collective exhibitions

2026

Jean Fournier: a Tribute, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (September 10 – December 19)

2024

Le choix de la peinture, une autre histoire de l’abstraction, 1962-1989, Le musée de Tessé, Le Mans (February 10 – June 9)

Avec les lignes. Après la poésie, La Gaya Scienza, Nice (October 12 – January 11, 2025).

2023

A leap into the void. Art beyond matter, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (February 3 – May 28)

The Shape of Freedom, Munchmuseet, Oslo (February 23 – May 21)

Painting the Essential: Surrealism and the East, West Bund Museum, Shangai (April 29 – September 24)

Judit Reigl 100 – Judit Reigl and the Second School of Paris, Műcsarnok, Budapest (October 4 – January 28, 2024)

L’autre musée, les trésors d’une grande collection d’art contemporain, exposition de la collection, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes (October 13 – January 14, 2024)

Teasing, Jean Degottex, Claire Fontaine, Ryan Gander, Idris Khan, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Galerie Mennour, Paris (December 7, 2023 – February 23, 2024)

L’œil vérité, Le musée au second degré, exposition de la collection, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne – MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine (May 23 – January 5, 2025).

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

- Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

- Musée d’art moderne, Vienne

- Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles

MULTIMÉDIAS

Biography

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 early commitment that earned him the Kandinsky Prize in 1951.…

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Jean Fournier, by Molly Warnock

03.09.2026
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EXHIBITIONS

Solo exhibitions

2022

A la ligne, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris.

Jean Degottex, Signe, Ecriture, Ligne, Alexis Lartigue Fine Art, Paris.

2021

Reports, Galerie ETC, Paris.

2015

Je voudrais que ma peinture soit une plus grande respiration, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris.

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collective exhibitions

2026

Jean Fournier: a Tribute, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (September 10 – December 19)

2024

Le choix de la peinture, une autre histoire de l’abstraction, 1962-1989, Le musée de Tessé, Le Mans (February 10 – June 9)

Avec les lignes. Après la poésie, La Gaya Scienza, Nice (October 12 – January 11, 2025).

2023

A leap into the void. Art beyond matter, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (February 3 – May 28)

The Shape of Freedom, Munchmuseet, Oslo (February 23 – May 21)

Painting the Essential: Surrealism and the East, West Bund Museum, Shangai (April 29 – September 24)

Judit Reigl 100 – Judit Reigl and the Second School of Paris, Műcsarnok, Budapest (October 4 – January 28, 2024)

L’autre musée, les trésors d’une grande collection d’art contemporain, exposition de la collection, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes (October 13 – January 14, 2024)

Teasing, Jean Degottex, Claire Fontaine, Ryan Gander, Idris Khan, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Galerie Mennour, Paris (December 7, 2023 – February 23, 2024)

L’œil vérité, Le musée au second degré, exposition de la collection, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne – MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine (May 23 – January 5, 2025).

+ See more

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

- Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

- Musée d’art moderne, Vienne

- Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles

MULTIMÉDIAS

Biography

img d artiste
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 early commitment that earned him the Kandinsky Prize in 1951. By the late 1940s, Degottex moved away from figuration to engage in an abstraction nourished both by his experience of the world and by encounters with writers and thinkers. In the mid-1950s, he drew closer to André Breton and the…

Galerie

Jean Fournier, by Molly Warnock

03.09.2026

"A bookdealer by training, Jean Fournier began staging exhibitions in the Librairie Kléber (soon to be known as the Galerie Kléber) in 1954, galvanized by direct encounters with specific artists and artworks. Over the next five decades, he develope...

EXHIBITIONS

Solo exhibitions

2022

A la ligne, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris.

Jean Degottex, Signe, Ecriture, Ligne, Alexis Lartigue Fine Art, Paris.

2021

Reports, Galerie ETC, Paris.

2015

Je voudrais que ma peinture soit une plus grande respiration, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris.

+ See more
Collective exhibitions

2026

Jean Fournier: a Tribute, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (September 10 – December 19)

2024

Le choix de la peinture, une autre histoire de l’abstraction, 1962-1989, Le musée de Tessé, Le Mans (February 10 – June 9)

Avec les lignes. Après la poésie, La Gaya Scienza, Nice (October 12 – January 11, 2025).

2023

A leap into the void. Art beyond matter, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (February 3 – May 28)

The Shape of Freedom, Munchmuseet, Oslo (February 23 – May 21)

Painting the Essential: Surrealism and the East, West Bund Museum, Shangai (April 29 – September 24)

Judit Reigl 100 – Judit Reigl and the Second School of Paris, Műcsarnok, Budapest (October 4 – January 28, 2024)

L’autre musée, les trésors d’une grande collection d’art contemporain, exposition de la collection, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes (October 13 – January 14, 2024)

Teasing, Jean Degottex, Claire Fontaine, Ryan Gander, Idris Khan, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Galerie Mennour, Paris (December 7, 2023 – February 23, 2024)

L’œil vérité, Le musée au second degré, exposition de la collection, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne – MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine (May 23 – January 5, 2025).

+ See more

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

- Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

- Musée d’art moderne, Vienne

- Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles

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