Exhibitions

Black is elegance, a color that does not confess its name, a nothing that dresses, but a whole that remains timeless, a tint of origin.

A non-colour, the addition of other colours, which reveals light, identifies shapes and contrasts colours. Many artists have tried the exercise of black, some because they found purity and simplicity in it, others because it allowed them to get to the point, and to quote Matisse: black is a color in itself, which sums up and consumes all the others.

While going through the correspondence addressed to Georges Folmer (1921–1966), a letter from Jean Gorin (1899–1981) to his friend in June 1959 catches our eye: “I hear that you have met an art critic who is interested in geometric art. That’s an event these days!”

Born in Lille in 1921. Jean Dewasne is considered one of the masters of constructive abstraction. He followed very advanced classical and musical studies then enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he attended architecture workshops for two years before turning to painting. In 1950, he participated with Auguste Herbin in the creation of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles.

Jean-François Dubreuil’s paintings are striking. Bold colours, juxtaposed rectangles, backgrounds saturated with solid colours or well-endowed with whites broken by grey or yellow, where parallelepipeds take over, surrounded by these same colours which, elsewhere, filled the whole background, sometimes crossed by diagonals. The effect thus produced immediately places this painting on the side of a geometric abstraction that was thought to be in the past, were it not for a few resistance fighters engaged in the beyond, or the below, we do not know, of history. However, on closer inspection, or over a longer period of time, there is something wrong with this foregone conclusion, but what?

We participate in this event organized by the Professional Committee of Art Galleries.

Marcelle Cahn’s career in the history of 20th century art began at the edge of the expressionist and purist currents, and flourished in the 1950s through a free abstraction, endowed both whimsical and extremely rigorous, of which the relief-paintings and spatial paintings of the 1960s are a remarkable achievement.

Denis Pondruel is exhibiting at the moment in this exhibition

Don’t miss this exhiibition, to see anew Jean Dewasne and a lot of other artists.

This year we will focus on Galerie Lahumière latest activities, with a review of our recent, current and upcoming exhibitions.

We are very pleased to inform you that this exhibition which groups two of our flagship artists, Jean Dewasne (1921-1999) and Auguste Herbin (1882-1960), will be the occasion to show again “L’habitacle rouge” a monumental work by Jean Dewasne whose architect was Jean-Claude Lahumière.

As part of the publication of a monograph on the work of Georges Folmer (1895-1977), written by Lydia Harambourg at Editions El Viso, the gallery is pleased to present a selection of works by the artist. This more contemporary reading of his works will allow everyone to get an idea of the contribution to geometric art of this artist, who was also the founder of the Measure Group (1961-1966), bringing together artists such as Marcelle Cahn, Günter Fruhtrunk, Jean Gorin or even Aurélie Nemours.

We invite you to discover the final part of our trilogy, entitled Géometries Croisées (Converging-Geometries), with six other contemporary artists, painters and sculptors. The works chosen were created at different periods of their careers. Despite all these years, tests, research and interrogations, the paths of these artists present a great coherence and a fidelity to geometrical abstraction which commands respect. The works by each artist, their views on geometry and colour intersect and continue to reflect each other, much to our delight. They offer us a fine overview of the history of geometric and constructed abstraction over the last thirty years.

Happy holidays, the gallery closes its doors to the public. We see you again in January 2022.

We are participating in this rich exhibition, divided into major sectors - Pioneers of Modern Art, Social Realism, Abstraction (s), New Figurations and Photography - the scenography offers a journey through the history of art by recontextualizing the works presented in the artistic movements of the twentieth century until today.

They talk about them, Marcelle Cahn, Aurelie Nemours, these artists that we defend and show there works.

By 1930, Paris had become the European hub of various nonfigurative trends, including abstract art, and the center of international avant-garde. Active in most of these, Abstraction-Création was established in 1931 by Auguste Herbin, Jean Hélion et Georges Vantongerloo,. It quickly became a meeting point for artists of different nationalities, covering more than 20 nations, whose activity had a key role in the progressive movements.