Michel Cadoret de l'Epineguen was an important representative of French painting in the 50s and 60s, in his time he was distinguished by art critics and was a friend of Alexander Calder. He spent much of his life in Mexico and the United States, so much so that he was called the most American of French painters by the art critic Pierre Courthion. Born in Paris in 1912, he studied at the Beaux-Arts from 1928 to 1932. Mobilized in 1939 and taken prisoner, he escaped in 1940 bef

From the end of the Second World War onwards, the newly found freedom became fertile ground for artistic creation. Abstract painting and surrealism initially struggled to find their place, yet the 1950s in France soon became the decade of lyrical abstraction, embodied by artists such as Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages, and Georges Mathieu. Their canvases, charged with gesture and intensity, defined a new language of painting that sought to transcend figuration and embody pure e

César Baldaccini, known as "César" is a French sculptor born in Marseille in 1921 and died in Paris in 1998. He is classified in the movement of the "new realism" resulting in 1960 from a declaration of a group of artists among whom Tinguely, Arman, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mimo Rottela, César and which was defined by the historian of art Pierre Restany. His sculptural work is marked by his numerous achievements in metal such as "the fish", "the bat" preserved in the National Mu

Optical Art is experiencing a real renaissance in the contemporary scene and the undeniable focus of this movement is Victor Vasarely. But there were other notable artists such as Romano Zanotti (1934-2019). Born from futurism and abstract art, Optical Art takes shape in the years 1955 following the exhibition "Movement" at the Denise René Gallery in Paris where Zanotti was exhibited for more than 15 years alongside Vasarely, Soto and Agam. Kinetic Art focused on the use of