Philippe Bonnet, Port, 1957, Oil on Canvas, Framed

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Philippe Bonnet, born February 24, 1927 in Paris, died March 11, 2017 in Rueil-Malmaison, is a French painter ranked in … Read more Philippe Bonnet, born February 24, 1927 in Paris, died March 11, 2017 in Rueil-Malmaison, is a French painter ranked in the second School of Paris.

Philippe Bonnet was born in Paris, most probably in February 1927 as indicated by the archives of the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris, or in 1929 according to the contradictory proposition of the Bénézit Dictionary.

He studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris from 1944 to 1946 and also received instruction from André Lhote. He is linked to Nicolas de Staël, Wifredo Lam and Victor Brauner because of his participation in the journal Cahiers d'art by Christian Zervos.

After his contribution to the decorations for the Angers festival in 1953, he owed his first exhibition in Paris in 1956 to his meeting with the gallery owner Heinz Berggruen, friend of Alberto Giacometti and Tristan Tzara.
Gérard Xuriguera places Philippe Bonnet in the movement that appeared in the 1950s and which Michel Ragon called “Abstract Landscapeism”.

In the segmented analysis of the different figurative currents suggested to him in 1986 by the traveling exhibition Figurations from the 60s to his days, Francis Parent places Philippe Bonnet, for his part, with Barthélémy Gérard, Ferit Iscan, Claude Cussinet, Jean-Marie Poumeyrol , Gottfried Salzmann and Thérès Boucraut, "in a figuration that could be called soft", thus distinguishing it from the more expressionist figuration of John Christoforou, Orlando Pelayo or Maurice Rocher, more materialistic of Abraham Hadad, Roger-Edgar Gillet and Jean Revol, represented by Franta, Ben-Ami Koller or Claude Morini. We will also read later that in this way Philippe Bonnet “indulges in the duel between materiality and dematerialization, between construction and deconstruction”.

Starting to travel through North Cotentin in the 1980s, he settled permanently at 19 rue Saint-Thomas-Becket in Barfleur in 2002. Original frame
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