Pierre Henry, French Surrealism Oil Painting Pierre Henry Surrealist Color Flowers in Vase, 1966

Description

Pierre Henry (1924 - 2015)
Hand signed and dated '66 lower right.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 19" x W 15" ; … more Pierre Henry (1924 - 2015)
Hand signed and dated '66 lower right.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 19" x W 15" ; (Painting) H 13" x W 8.75"

Pierre-Henry sociétaire des grands Salons à Paris et vice-président de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

PIerre Henry studied painting, the art of fresco and of etching in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, in Paris. Since 1950, his first exhibition, his talent led him to become one of the leaders of the French figurative expressionist school. He was of the period of Jean jansem and Pierre Serrier andBernard Buffet
"I believe that the artists, painters, poets, and musicians, are our society’s prophets, its preachers. They bear witness to their anguish face to face with humanity in total confusion, which feels and knows it is threatened.
At first smooth, the painting slowly acquires reliefs. The lacquer color is dazzling and the backgrounds alone make up genuine paintings. That especially sumptuous texture emphasizes their graphic precision.
Smooth paint, flattened out, provides a lacquered effect, and brings to mind the great Flemish masters’ works.
Of the generation of great post war French artists he has shown with Jean Pierre Alaux, Lucien Philippe Moretti, Edouard Pignon, Henri Michaux, Guy Cambier, Jean Fusaro, Mara Tran Long, Claude Mourier, Herick Michaud, Tony Buller
French figurative expressionism painter. Pierre Clément Didier Henry is a member of the major Salons in Paris and vice-president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
In his father Clément Henry's bakery, located rue Saint-Denis in Paris, Pierre-Henry had developed the habit of drawing. Noticed by the painter Martin Roch who introduced him to André Marchand, Gertrude Stein and the writer Blaise Cendrars, this made him want to study painting, the art of frescoes and engraving.
Pierre-Henry took courses at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris and studied painting at the Poujon workshop who, appointed director of the Casa de Velázquez, left the workshop to Jean Dupas.
He was notably a friend of the painters Maurice Boitel , Daniel du Janerand , Jean-Pierre Alaux , and André Sablé , of the Young Painting of the New School of Paris .
His favorite themes are love, war, time, life, death constantly mixed together, destiny, as well as still lifes. His works are generally very colorful. He is renowned as one of the leaders of the contemporary color figurative school. Patrice de La Perrière of the magazine Univers des Arts, defined him as an artist who poses “a look dressed in poetic inventions”.
Many private collections around the world host works by Pierre-Henry, as well as the Paris Museum of Modern Art, the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum , the Annecy Museum, the Hôtel d'Aumont, the Palais de Élysée, the Neuilly Customs School, the Fleischman Foundation, the French Embassy in Pretoria, the Boston Museum, the Paul Valéry Museum in Sète, the Hôtel de Région in Montpellier , and a large donation from Josette Henry to the Gard Museum of Sacred Art, in Pont-Saint-Esprit.
Among his works, we can cite The Eternal Prisoner (1949), Portrait of Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1956), The Woman with the Suns, The Lovers (1963), Death (1963), The Sleeping Beauty (1965), The man prisoner of war (tribute to Félicien Challaye who died inApril 1967), La Cévenne (1968), The game is not over, Terre des hommes (1975), Sunflowers, The benefits of water (1976), Bouquet(s), The flower festival (1977), The happiness of this world (1980), The awakening of spring (1982), The thread of life (2004), Portrait of Carlina.
He has won numerous prizes including the Pierre Puvis de Chavannes prize awarded by the Société nationale des beaux-arts .

Select Awards

1947 - Logist for the Grand Prix de Rome .
1949 - A Hallmark award allows him to discover Italy
1955 - Drouant-David Young Painting Prize
1956 - Portrait of Dr. Albert Schweitzer for the Witness Painters of their Time, Galliera museum
1968 - Puvis de Chavannes Prize
1970 - Grand Prix for Painters Witnesses of their Time, Galliera museum
1980 - International Gemmail Prize
1983 - Grand Prix de l’Orangerie de Versailles
He created the characters for a puppet film, Moses , which won an award at the first Venice Biennale.

Exhibitions
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His first exhibition, at the Galerie Saint Placide in Paris, dates from 1950. He exhibited notably at the Salon "Compariisons" ( Jean-Pierre Alaux 's group ), at the Salon des indépendants , at the Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts , at the Autumn Fair .

His other exhibitions:

1968 - Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
1987 - Retrospective exhibition, Lons-le-Saunier museum
1989 - Retrospective exhibition, Paul Valéry museum in Sète
1989 - Tribute awarded by the Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais , Paris
1990 - Guest of honor at the Air and Space Show, Jacobins Museum, Toulouse
1993 - Retrospective exhibition, Gemmail museum, Tours
1995 - Exhibition at the castle-museum of Gaasbeek (Belgium)
1995 - Tribute to the Salon du Dessin, Espace Branly, Paris
1996 - Retrospective exhibition, Musée du Colombier, Alès
2003 - Haus Ludwig Museum, Saarlouis (Germany)
2005 - Retrospective exhibition, at the Moulins Albigeois , Albi
2009 - Exhibition in the Marcel Pagnol room, at Grand'Combe
2012 - Exhibition at the Albert-André Museum in Bagnols-sur-Cèze
2015 - Exhibition at the Château de Vascoeuil
2017 - Exhibition at the Sacred Art Museum of Gard , in Pont-Saint-Esprit
Pierre-Henry is also exhibited at the Galerie Henot in Enghien le Bains.


Book Monographs
1973 - Book prefaced by Bernard Clavel published by Graphic Arts of Aquitaine,
1987 - Brochure, The Universe of Pierre Henry , Ed. Terre des Peintres
2017 - Pierre Henry, Hommage, catalog of the Museum of Sacred Art of Gard , published by the department of Gard less