Works by Jean Legros
Do you know Jean Legros? “This colorist is incontestably in the lineage of Henri Matisse,” explains Christophe Gratadou, gallery owner in the Marais, in Paris, who exhibits the work of this French avant-garde painter (1917-1981), who was also philosopher, sociologist, psychologist and musician. But Legros is the product of a double filiation: from Matisse, therefore, but also from Jean Arp, the co-founder of Dadaism.
“Jean Legros' wife had written one of Jean Arp's catalogs raisonnés and this is how the latter met the painter in whom he saw a natural heir,” says the gallery owner of rue de Thorigny. Then the eldest passed on his artistic vocabulary to the other so that, in a certain way, he could perpetuate his work. » Witness the white Reliefs – identical to those owned by Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé – made by Jean Legros in the 1960s during his period of quest for the absolute towards purity.
After two years of this work, the artist returned, in the years 1970-1973, to color with magnificent stencils – blue, green, gold, orange – whose modernist and undulatory vibrations cannot leave seventies fans indifferent. .
October – November 2021
Jean Legros meets Jean Arp
Gratadou Gallery
12, rue de Thorigny 75003 Paris
Tuesday to Saturday from 14:30 a.m. to 19 p.m.
Tel: +06 82 83 26 29
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Text: Axel G.
25.10.21
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