Jean Legros

About the artist

The work of Jean Legros has always been inhabited by a kind of luminous power which still amazes today as it guides the eye and shines from one painting onto another. This metaphor of light, as hackneyed as it may be, seems the only one liable to convey the intensely radiating color that unfailingly characterizes every one of his paintings.

Born in 1917 in Paris died in 1981 in Malakoff

Latest main exhibitions}

  • 2005 Musée Edgar Mélik, Cabriès
  • 2006/2007 Musée Tavet-Delacour, Pontoise
  • 2008 Capitainerie de la Grande Motte
  • 2009 Stattgalerie Klagenfurt, Autriche
  • 2010/2011 Musée des Ursulines, Mâcon

Works in museums and public collections}

  • Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
  • Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Alsace
  • Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Cholet
  • Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, St Etienne

Work

Espace biais 1977

Espace biais 1977

Acrylique sur toile
146,5 x 137,5 cm