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Jean Pougny
The object freed from its meaning decomposes in real elements: these are fundamental to art.
Ivan Albertovitch Puni, known as Jean Pougny, was born in Kuokkala in 1894 in the province of St-Petersburg (present day Finland). He obtains an academic training; his parents hoped he would choose a military career. In 1909 he decides to devote himself to painting. A year later, he takes his first trip to Paris where he works in different art academies; the young man discovers fauvism, cubism . . .
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Chair and palette
Circa 1950 Gouache and oil on paper laid down on plywood, signed by the artist in lower right. Without
Flower
Date unknown Gouache, signed with the atelier stamp. Without
Without title
1964 Lithograph, handcoloured with pochoir and colored pencils, extracted from the portfolio "Pougny". Ed. Au Vent d'Arles, Paris. Without
Study
1927 Sheet of study in pencil, only on recto, dated 1927. Without
Studies I
Circa 1944 Sheet of studies, recto-verso, in pencil, signed with the stamp of the atelier. Without
Single work 
Study for a fresco
1921 Study for the fresco of the Gallery der Sturm. Watercolour and original blue ink, signed with the stamp of the Atelier in bottom on left, one of the... Cat. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, p.34 (photo de la fresque)
Chair
Circa 1960 Lithograph after a painting by Pougny, signed in the stone. Berninger, VoL. II (the painting)
Single work 
Sketches of Interior
Circa 1950 Sheet of sketchbook, with many sketches of Interior in pencil on recto and verso. Stamp of the atelier. Without
Pougny
1964 Book (See "Illustrated books"), portfolio, with 10 linocuts. The linocuts - some are coloured with pochoir (colouring pencils or gouache) - reproduce... Without
Single work 
Studies
Circa 1944 Sheet of studies, recto-verso, in pencil, signed with the stamp of the atelier. Without
The reader
1950 Original gouache on paper lead down on isorel, signed in bottom on the right. Preparatory study for the painting "the reader", collection of the... Berninger, Vol. II, n° 1049 (for the painting)
Harlequin with...
Circa 1960 Lithograph after Pougny signed with the stamp of the atelier, realized according to a painting of 1948 of Jean Pougny. Berninger, Vol. II, n° 976 (for the painting)
Interior
Circa 1950 Original lithograph, signed in pencil. Without
Maquette for the...
1921 Original watercolor, signed in lower left. withoutCatalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
*« Jean Pougny : catalogue de l’œuvre », 2 Vol., H. Berninger-J.A. Cartier, Ed Wasmuth, Tübingen, 1992 * « Pougny : catalogue de l'oeuvre Russie-Berlin », H. Berninger, Ed. Wasmuth, 1997 All the "catalogues raisonnés"Bibliographic track & more
To read about the artist :
- « Jean Pougny », J. A. Cartier, P. Cailler, Genève, 1956
- « Pougny », L. Mallè et autres, Ed. G.A.M. Turin, 1962
- « Donation Pougny », B. Dorival, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1966
- « Pougny », Aus am Waldsee, Berlin, 1975
- « Trois peintres russes à Paris », Alain Bosquet, Ed. Le Sphinx, 1980
- « Pougny - Bogratchew », cat. d'expo., Ed. Musée Bourdelle, 1989
- « Pougny », MAM, Paris, 1993
- « J. Pougny, l'alchimie du réel », E. de Chassey, in Beaux Arts mag. N°113, 1993
- « Ivan Puni, works from the Herman Berninger Coll… », Ed. Museum J. Tinguely, 2003
- « Pougny », cat., collectif, Ed. Galerie Zlotowski / Galerie le Minaotaure, 2003
To read from the artist :
- « La peinture contemporaine », L.D Frenkel, Berlin, 1923
Website :
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fictionnal 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.
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A tribute to Jean Pougny
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Ivan Albertovich Puni est né en 1894 dans la province de Saint-Pétersbourg en Russie. En 1924, il s’installe à Paris et s’appellera désormais Jean Pougny. L’artiste prendra la nationalité française en 1947. Jean Pougny meurt le 28 décembre 1956 dans son atelier parisien au 86, Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs ; il repose au cimetière du Montparnasse (Div.7, Paris). En son hommage, une rose.
"J'ai dû digérer Paris et cela a été drôlement difficile." - Jean Pougny
"Nous devons nous mettre à ressentir l’art comme un mouvement organique." - Jean Pougny
"Comme il y a un "bleu Pougny", il y a un "espace Pougny" qui oscille entre équilibre et dislocation, architecture et musique, hiératisme et danse." - Jean-Claude Marcadé
"D'avoir eu la chance de connaître Pougny, de l'avoir entendu longuement développer les théories de sa jeunesse, m'a probablement dessillé les yeux et aidé à mieux voir et comprendre l'art de mes contemporains." - Dina Vierny
"Peinture heureuse et tendre et d'une subtile innocence." - Jacques Prévert
"L'art de la peinture a la possibilité de métamorphoser les objets inutiles et laids en objets précieux, de redonner leurs lettres de noblesse aux plus simples objets du quotidien." - Jean Pougny
Mouvements de l'art
- + SUPREMATISM / 1915-1920 / Alexandra Exter, El Lissitzky, Alexandre Rodtchenko, Varvara Stépanova, etc.
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