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Henri Goetz

"If I choose the nonfigurative world, it is that I believe that it is vaster than the other."

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Notes of biography

American born in New York in 1909, Henri Goetz was naturalized French in 1949. He was 26 years old when he married the painter Christine Boumeester from Holland. He shared all his life long with her. He began his art studies in Harvard, then studied to the Central School of New York. Later, in Paris, he still learnt to the Jullian Academies, the Grande Chaumière and in the atelier of Amédée Ozenfant. His life and his friendships were rich, he was the friend of Arp, Picasso, Picabia, Hartung, Kandinsky and of so many others he liked.
He started engraving in 1940, and created new processes such as the carborundum (1970). Henri Goetz illustrated famous works. A great number of personal exhibitions -like in Paris - devoted his work. His painting carried traces of fantastic and hallucination. In these years, his painting was sensitive to the Surrealism contributions. He founded, with Raoul Ubac, the review “la main à plume” (1940-41). He painted abstracted canvases and his signs made thought of Soulages or Hartung ones.
Henri Goetz taught to the Ranson Academy, to the Grande Chaumière, to the elderly Academy Andre Lhote, before becoming, in 1969, professor of Painting and Engraving at the University of Vincennes.
He died in Nice, in 1989.
The Goetz-Boumeester Museum, in Villefranche-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes), displays about fifty works of each one of these two artists who bound their life.

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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.

We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.

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Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « Henri Goetz », Lorsky, Paris, 1952
  • « Henri Goetz », Christine Boumeester, Ed. Maeght, 1968
  • « Henri Goetz », Vercors, Musée de Poche, Paris, 1972
  • « Gravure au carborundum », H. Goetz, postface de Miro, Ed. Maeght, 1974
  • « H. G. - Peinture - Pastel - Dessin - Gravure », collectif, Ed. La Nuova Foglio, 1981
  • « H. Goetz - 50 years of painting », cat. d'expo., Ed. Crawshaw Gallery, Londres, 1986
  • « H. Goetz, rétrospective », cat. d'expo., Ed. Arts Graphiques d'Aquitaine, 1975/1976
  • « L'ordre subtil des signes, H. Goetz », Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1989
  • « H. Goetz », in Dic. De l'art mod. et contemp., Hazan, Paris, 1992
  • «  Henri Goetz, Retrospective », B. Alligand, Ed. Galerie Lacan, 1995
To read from the artist :
  • « Livres et manuscrits », cat. d'expo., J.-P. Geay, Ed. F.O.L., 1990
  • « Ma vie, mes amis », Ed. Climats, 2001
Website :
No website dedicated to the artist.

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Art movements

+ SURREALISM / 1924-1969 / Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, Kurt Schwitters, Taro Okamoto, Antonio Berni, etc.
+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
All art movements

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Beyond works currently in stock, it seemed to me useful to combine business with pleasure by letting you discover others works by artists in my gallery. These artworks, now sold or removed from our website, have been in our stock in the past.

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