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Roger-François Thépot
"A painting seems to be a spiritual quest."
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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 (*). 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!
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Roger-François Thépot said François Thépot, is born in Landeleau (Finistère, France) in 1925. He begins painting as an autodidact in 1941, with particular interest in landscape and still life, his early paintings are dark, with a predominance of black, dark green, purple and dull blue. The young artist moves to Paris in 1947 and dedicates to ceramics for several years, stopping painting for a while.
Thépot resumes painting in 1950, moving gradually toward abstraction. His first abstract painting is dated 1951 when the artist finally abandons figuration. He meets Jean Deyrolle who advises and encourages him (1952), then Michel Seuphor (1954), whose long friendship is decisive. Thépot becomes then designer and manager at the Théâtre de Poche (Pocket Theater)(Paris, 1953). In 1955, the visit of the exhibitions "Glarner" (Square Gallery, Paris) and "Kandinsky" (watercolors, Maeght Galery) impresses him to the extent to urge him to create his first polygonal gray compositions; the period that follows sees him develop this style without interruption for several years. Roger- François Thépot meets Jean Arp (1955) and many important artists of his time.
Besides his solo exhibitions (Paris, Bruges, Brussels and Toronto, etc.), the artist participates regularly in salons and exhibitions from 1954: Salon of Comparisons, News Realities, School of Paris (1958), Hall of Sacred Art, Salon of Mai, "Construction and Geometry in Painting " (New York, 1960-61), International Exhibitions of Constructivism, Museum of Ceret, etc. He is a founding member of the group "Mesure" ("Action") in Paris in 1961.
In 1964 he obtains a grant from the Arts Council of Canada and moves to Toronto, he teaches several years at the Ontario College of Art in this city, coming to spend his summers in France.
The abstraction to which Thépot heads in 1951, is similar to the geometric abstraction tendency. His art, made of simplicity, balance and moderation, is characterized, in structures generally strictly orthogonal, by the richness and the solemnity of gray agreements and deep black. In 1990, the Lahumière Gallery (Paris) holds a beautiful exhibition of his work. "He paints the world as he sees it from his island, and the remoteness makes everything turns into pure beauty, that everything becomes a very thin halo smile," writes Michel Seuphor about the painter.
Delicate Man, fragile and strong at the time, of great discretion, Roger-Francois Thépot dies in 2003.
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To read about the artist :
- « Construction and Geometry in painting », cat., Galerie Charlette, NY, 1960
- « Groupe Mesure », cat. d'expo. collect., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, 1961
- « Peinture construite », cat. d'exp. collect., Galerie Hautefeuille, Paris, 1962
- « Art abstrait formel », cat. d'exp. collect., Galerie Hautefeuille, Paris, 1962
- « Mesure - Groupe expérimental », cat. d'expo. collect., Märkisches Museum, 1965
- « Constructivism: Origins & evolution », G. Rickey, Ed. G. Braziller, NY, 1967
- « Thirteen French Artists », cat. d'expo. coll., Gallery Nippon, Tokyo, 1967
- « Thépot », cat. d’exp., Galerie Moos, Toronto, 1967
- « Roger-François Thépot », M. Seuphor, cat. d’exp., Galerie N.I., Den Haag, 1974
- « Groupe Mesure », Luc Peire, in Mesures Art International n°2, Paris, 1988
To read from the artist :
- « R.-F. Thépot : Les artistes contemporains, 4 », Imre Pan, Ed. Morphèmes, 1963
- « Thépot », Michel Seuphor, M.-M. Thépot, Collection Prisme n°11, Paris, 1972
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Stamp by Roger-François Thépot
fictional stamp
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!
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+ SCHOOL OF PARIS / 1945-1960 / Jean Degottex, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Staël, etc.
+ NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
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