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