Michel De GallardExpressionist School of Paris Oil Painting Still Life with Pear and Flowers, mid 20th C

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Michel De Gallard, France (1921-2007).
Oil on canvas signed lower left, Silver gilt and dark wood frame.
Provenance: Label on … Read more Michel De Gallard, France (1921-2007).
Oil on canvas signed lower left, Silver gilt and dark wood frame.
Provenance: Label on verso Galerie de la Presidence, Paris,
Titled: 'Femmes Au Parapluie'.
Measures 35.25"H x 25.75"W framed; 29.25"H x 19.75"W site size.

Michel de Gallard (1921-2007) was a French painter. He is considered a member of the School of Paris and La Ruche and is associated with French artists Andre Minaux, Bernard Buffet and Bernard Lorjou with whom he founded the Anti-Abstract Art Group "L'homme Témoin". After studying medicine, from 1943 Michel de Gallard devoted himself exclusively to painting. He studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière et Arts Décoratifs with Yves Brayer, Mac Avoy and Othon Friesz. He enrolled in the Charpentier where he met Paul Rebeyrolle. In 1946, he met Bernard Lorjou in his atelier in Montmartre. The discovery of rigorous, robust and expressionism painting influenced the young artist. Brueghel, Lorjou, as well as Maurice Utrillo and Francis Gruber were the pillars of Michel de Gallard’s art.

He then moved to La Ruche, The Paris address and studio of many famous artists such as Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Ossip Zadkine and Fernand Léger. He joined the group of the ‘Misérabilisme’, to which belonged at times also Pablo Picasso and Bernard Buffet. In 1950, he was one of the founding members of the Parisian Salon de la Jeune Peinture along with Bernard Buffet. In 1955, numerous of his works were bought by the French State, the city of Paris and foreign museums. Since 1971, de Gallard exhibited his works in major Parisian galleries.

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1949 Member of the Salon d'Automne
1950 Founder Member of the Salon de la Jeune Peinture
1952 Prix Antral. Prix Portica de la Biennale de Menton
1953 Prix de la Ville de Saint Denis. Prix des Amis de la Biennale de Menton. Exhibited at the Salon of the Ecole de Paris at the Galerie Charpentier, Faubourg St-Honoré
1955 the Croix de l'Ordre Polonia Restituta.
1960 Prix Biennial Lilas-Bug at the Salon Comparaisons
1971 Prix Conseil Général des Yvelines at the Salon of Mantes-la-Jolie. Prix du Syndicat d'Initiative de la Ville de Mantes-la-Jolie.

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1956 Galerie Framond, Paris.
1959 Galerie Combes, Clermont-Ferrand.
1960 Galerie Hervé Odermatt, Paris.
1961 Galerie Saint-Georges, Lyon.
1962 Galerie Dresdnère, Toronto, Canada. Galerie David et Garnier, Paris.
1964 Galerie Musson, Orléans. Galerie Lefévre, London, England.
1965 Galerie David et Garnier, Paris.
1966 Galerie Chappe-Lautier, Toulouse. Galerie Malaval, Lyon.
1967 Galerie Arte Moderno, Caracas, Venezuela.
1968 Galerie Lefévre, London, Paris. Galerie Moyon Avenard, Nantes. Zantman Gallery, Carmel, California, USA.
1969 Galerie Maurice Garnier, Paris.
1970 Zantman Gallery, Carmel, California, USA. Tamenaga Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1971 Galerie Lefévre, London, England.
1972 Zantman Gallery, Carmel, California, USA.
1974 Martial Gallery, Montreal, Canada. Zantman Gallery, Carmel, California, USA.
1975 Zantman Gallery, Carmel, California, USA. Galerie d’Art Contemporain, La Rochère, Vosges.
1976 Château de la Bertrandière, Saint-Etienne.
1977 Zantman Gallery, Carmel, California, USA. Pieter Wenning Gallery, Johannesbourg, South Africa.
1978 Zantman Gallery, Carmel, California, USA. Galerie de la Présidence, Paris.
1983 Atelier 4, Sens. Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1984 Tamenaga Gallery, Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Japan.
1985 Zantman Gallery, Carmel, California, USA. Galerie Le Cadre Noir, Reunion Islands.
1986 Galerie Le Réhaut, Lyon. Galerie de la Présidence, Paris.
1988 Yu Gallery, Nagoya, Japan.
1989 Four Room Gallery, Yokohama, Japan.
1990 Daimaru Gallery, Kyoto, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.
1993 Galerie de la Présidence, Paris.
1997 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Villeneuve s/Yonne (drawings).
1999 Château de Val (Corrèze), retrospective.
2006 Collégiale Saint-Lazare, Avallon, retrospective.

Salon/ Art fairs

Salon des Moins de Trente Ans- Salon des Jeunes Peintres
Salon d’Automne
Le Salon des Indépendants
Salon des Tuileries
L’Ecole de Paris à la Galerie Charpentier
Le Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’Eau
Salon de Mai
Exposition Internationale de Peinture de Paris

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Musée de la Ville de Paris
Musée de Djakarta
Bibliothèque Municipale de Riom
Musée de Poitiers
Musée Yamagata, Japan See less