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The painter Huguette Arthur Bertrand was born in Ecouen in 1922. After a childhood spent in the Saint-Etienne region in contact with the textile tradition, she moved to Paris just after the war and befriended the artists gravitating around the Denise René gallery. She obtained a grant and traveled. Huguette Arthur Bertrand...
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Biography of Huguette-Arthur Bertrand
The painter Huguette Arthur Bertrand was born in Ecouen in 1922. After a childhood spent in the Saint-Etienne region in contact with the textile tradition, she moved to Paris just after the war and befriended the artists gravitating around the Denise René gallery. She obtained a grant and traveled. Huguette Arthur Bertrand became known very early on as one of the first representatives of post-war French abstract art, referred to as the New School of Paris. A rare female painter of post-war lyrical abstraction, Huguette Arthur Bertrand actively participated in the Parisian art scene, rubbing shoulders with, among others, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung, Zao Wou ki and Chu Teh-Chun. However, her sensitivity and enthusiasm kept her away from the smooth and cold geometry developed by her entourage and encouraged her to follow her own pictorial energy. Present at the Salon de Mai in 1949, she participated in the group "Les Mains éblouies" exhibited by the Maeght gallery in 1949-1950 and had her first solo exhibitions at the Niepce gallery in 1951, then at the Arnaud gallery from 1953 to 1959. In 1956, she participated in the exhibition "The Adventure of Abstract Art" presented by Michel Ragon. From 1956 on, she exhibited abroad (New York, Copenhagen, England, Belgium, Germany and Japan). From the 1950's to the 1990's, a transition was made over several years in a progressive manner, her work evolving from very constructed compositions to more fluid fields full of flashes and shadows. The artist's energy is liberated and the gesture asserts itself with strength. The works of Huguette Arthur Bertrand are part of the collections of major international museums. The artist died in Paris in 2005.
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Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
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To read from or about the artist :
* « Seize peintres de la jeune école de Paris », Herta Wescher, Ed. Fall, Paris, 1957* « Huguette Arthur Bertrand », monographie, Bernard Pingaud, Ed. Hoffer, Paris, et Sorensen, Copenhague, 1964
* « L’art abstrait », Michel Seuphor et Michel Ragon, Ed. Maeght, Paris, 1973
* « Huguette Arthur Bertrand / Notes de parcours du peintre », Michel Ragon, Ed.. Porte de Sud/Galarté, 1987
* « Huguette Arthur Bertrand », catalogue monographique, Galerie Diane de Polignac, 2012
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- + LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM / 1950-1960 / Jackson Pollock, Emil Schumacher, etc.
- + SCHOOL OF PARIS / 1945-1960 / Jean Degottex, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Staël, etc.
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