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Stamp by Jean Bazaine
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
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A tribute to Jean Bazaine
Sa santé ne lui permettait plus de sortir de son atelier de Clamart, mais Jean Bazaine continuait à travailler à la réalisation de grands collages, inventant des formes tout à fait inédites dans son oeuvre. Il réalisait également une série de peintures de petit format sur ses thèmes de prédilection : la mer, les vagues, les rochers. Dans la soirée du dimanche 4 mars 2001, Jean Bazaine meurt dans sa maison de Clamart au terme d'une journée de travail dans son atelier, ayant une dernière fois bouleversée l'ordonnancement d'un collage en cours. Une cérémonie sera organisée quelques jours plus tard à l'église Saint-Séverin (Paris), dont il a réalisé les extraordinaires vitraux de l'abside. Ici, le vitrail de la résurrection, l'un des six vitraux conçus par l'artiste pour la Chapelle de la Madeleine à Penmarc'h (Finistère, Bretagne). Jean Bazaine repose dans le cimetière du parc à Clamart (EG6 allée 2 tombe 6). En son hommage, avec respect, cette fleur du passiflore.
"Les grands peintres, comme tous les grands novateurs, prennent le monde dans leur main et nous le rendent différent, [...], agrandi, élargi pour toujours. " - Jean Bazaine
"La vie d'un peintre, c'est à rebours qu'elle se déroule : le peintre naît vieux." - Jean Bazaine
"La peinture est une manière "d'être", la tentation de respirer dans un monde irrespirable." - Jean Bazaine
"Je voulais que ma peinture ait cette multiplicité de lectures possibles en profondeur, que le fond soit la forme, la forme le fond." - Jean Bazaine
"Ce que je peins est l'aboutissement d'une émotion que j'ai éprouvée devant la nature. " - Jean Bazaine
"Le monde, à défaut d'être représenté, doit être présent." - Jean Bazaine
Notes of biography
Jean Bazaine is born in Paris in 1904. While preparing a literature degree, he is a student of the sculptor Landowsksi at the school of Fine-Arts in Paris. In 1930, the young artist is showing his work in group exhibitions with Fautrier, Puni (Pougny), and Goerg and Gromaire whom he befriends. His first personal exhibition is organized in 1932; Pierre Bonnard encouraged him.
Jean Bazaine visits for the first time Saint-Guénole in 1936; the sea and the light from the north acquire from now on a privileged place in his artistic vision. The same year (1936), he befriends with Jacques Villon. He takes part, the following year, in the important exhibition “L’art indépendent, Maîtres d’aujourd’hui” - “Independent Art, Masters of today” - (Petit-Palais, Paris). He is awarded the Blumenthal price in 1938.
In 1941, Bazaine becomes one of the organizers of an exhibition which marks the history of painting at the School of Paris: "Twenty young artists from French tradition"; this event is conceived as a provocation to the German occupant who had qualified “degenerated art” this type of expression. Until the end of the war, Bazaine often exhibits with Estève and Lapicque, while maintaining close relationships with painters such as Manessier, Singier, Gischia, Pignon or Moal. Bazaine now participates in major international events (Biennial Event of Venice, Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg, Biennial Event of Sao Paulo, Documenta in Kassel, etc..).
His first truly important personal exhibition is held in Paris in 1949, Bazaine shows paintings created between 1944 and 1949. His work then rejects appearance, transforming it lyrically sensitive by using a wide range of colors and by the harmonies of a great richness. The first retrospective of his work is being successively organized, in 1959, by Kunsthalle of Bern, Stedelijk Museum of Eindhoven and by the Museum of Amsterdam. His exhibitions, both personal and collective, continue steadily over time.
Jean Bazaine explores many ways of expression: painter with the gouache, painter in watercolours, engraver, lithographer. Jean Bazaine always continues an intense activity for work with monumental purposes: painter of paperboards of tapestries, paperboards of mosaics (church of Audincourt, UNESCO in Paris, ORTF, Palace of Luxembourg, etc) and paperboards of stained glasses (Church of ESA, castle of Lime, church of Audincourt, Villeparis, Saint-Severin church of Paris, cathedral of Saint-Dié, etc). He creates sets for theatre and collaborates in the adventure of the illustrated book (with friends such as André Frénaud, Raymond Queneau, Jean Tardieu, Eluard or others). Moreover, since 1934, Bazaine who remains throughout his life a man of culture punctuates his work of painter with written reflections on art and artists. His “Notes on the painting of today” (Ed. Floury, Paris, 1948) is a classic in the field of writings of painter, and is repeatedly translated and republished.
The painter Jean Bazaine dies in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine) in 2001.
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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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To read about the artist :
- « Jean Bazaine, Vitraux et Mosaïques », Musée du vitrail, Ed. Benteli, 1965
- « Bazaine », Jean Tardieu et autres, Ed. Maeght, Paris, 1975
- « Jean Bazaine, Rétrospective », B. Dorival, Musée des Beaux-Arts Quimper, 1982
- « Bazaine: Dessins 1931-1988 », Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1988
- « Bazaine », P. Cabanne et autres, Ed. Skira, Genève & CNAP, Paris, 1990
- « Bazaine », Claire Stoullig, Ed. Albert Skira, Musée d'Art & d'Histoire, Fribourg, 1996
- « Couleurs et mots », entretiens, Ed. Le Cherche Midi, Paris, 1997
- « Bazaine », Jean-Pierre Greff, Ed. Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2002
- « Jean Bazaine, Hommages », Ed. Galerie Louis Carré & Cie, 2004
- « Au Pays de Bazaine », Bernard Berrou, Editions Diabase, 2015
To read from the artist :
- « Le temps de la peinture (1938-1989 », Ed. Aubier, Paris, 1990
- « Entretiens avec Jean Bazaine : Couleurs et mots », Ed. Cherche Midi, 1997
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Stamp by Jean Bazaine
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsFew words handwritten by the artist
Document in reproduction / This document is not for sale
Watch
A tribute to Jean Bazaine
Sa santé ne lui permettait plus de sortir de son atelier de Clamart, mais Jean Bazaine continuait à travailler à la réalisation de grands collages, inventant des formes tout à fait inédites dans son oeuvre. Il réalisait également une série de peintures de petit format sur ses thèmes de prédilection : la mer, les vagues, les rochers. Dans la soirée du dimanche 4 mars 2001, Jean Bazaine meurt dans sa maison de Clamart au terme d'une journée de travail dans son atelier, ayant une dernière fois bouleversée l'ordonnancement d'un collage en cours. Une cérémonie sera organisée quelques jours plus tard à l'église Saint-Séverin (Paris), dont il a réalisé les extraordinaires vitraux de l'abside. Ici, le vitrail de la résurrection, l'un des six vitraux conçus par l'artiste pour la Chapelle de la Madeleine à Penmarc'h (Finistère, Bretagne). Jean Bazaine repose dans le cimetière du parc à Clamart (EG6 allée 2 tombe 6). En son hommage, avec respect, cette fleur du passiflore.
"Les grands peintres, comme tous les grands novateurs, prennent le monde dans leur main et nous le rendent différent, [...], agrandi, élargi pour toujours. " - Jean Bazaine
"La vie d'un peintre, c'est à rebours qu'elle se déroule : le peintre naît vieux." - Jean Bazaine
"La peinture est une manière "d'être", la tentation de respirer dans un monde irrespirable." - Jean Bazaine
"Je voulais que ma peinture ait cette multiplicité de lectures possibles en profondeur, que le fond soit la forme, la forme le fond." - Jean Bazaine
"Ce que je peins est l'aboutissement d'une émotion que j'ai éprouvée devant la nature. " - Jean Bazaine
"Le monde, à défaut d'être représenté, doit être présent." - Jean Bazaine
Art movements
+ LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM / 1950-1960 / Jackson Pollock, Emil Schumacher, etc.
+ SOCIAL REALISM / 1920-1950 / André Fougeron, Otto Griebel, Amédée de la Patellière, etc.
+ NON FIGURATIVE ART / 1942-1975 / Jean Bertholle, André Beaudin, Jeannie Dumesnil, Hanna Ben-Dov, Elvire Jan, Charles Lapicque, etc.
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