Jean Le Moal (30 October 1909 – 16 March 2007) was a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

of the new Paris school, designer of

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windows, and one of the founder members of the Salon de Mai.

Biography

Jean Le Moal enrolled at the "Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon" in 1926, and the

École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs The École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (; ÉnsAD) also known as Arts Decos' and École des Arts décoratifs, is a public grande école of art and design, constituent member of PSL Research University. The school is located in the R ...

in Paris in 1929. He also attended the "

Académie Ranson The Académie Ranson was a private art school founded in 1908 in Paris by the French painter Paul Ranson (1862–1909). History The Académie Ranson was founded in 1908 by Paul Ranson (1862–1909), who himself studied at the Académie Jul ...

" (1935–1936). In 1939, Le Moal worked on the 1400 square meter ceiling of the French Pavilion at the International Exhibition in New York. In 1941, Le Moal exhibited in "XX jeunes peintres de tradition française", with

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, Manessier, Singier, Pignon, Gischia, and in 1943 in "Douze peintres d’aujourd’hui" at Galerie de France. In 1945, he was a founding member of the Salon de Mai. In the post-war years Jean Le Moal became established as a prominent figure in European painting. He exhibited throughout Europe and was also awarded the "Prix de la Critique" in 1953. Several retrospectives have been dedicated to Le Moal’s work, including at Musée de Lubeck and Musée de Wuppertal (1961), Musée de

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and Musée de la Ville de Luxembourg (1963), Musées de

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and

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(1970–1971), "Espace

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nais d'art contemporain" and Musées de

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, Esch-sur-Alzette,

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and

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(1990–1992). Le Moal’s work is represented in many museums including * Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris *

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, London * Museum of Modern Art, Wellington, New Zealand * Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico, * Modern Art Museum of Luxembourg * Onstad Museum, Norway * Museo de Arte, Chile * Musée d’Art Contemporain, Yugoslavia * Musée de Turin, Italy.

Selective bibliography

* ''Trois peintres. Le Moal, Manessier, Singier'', ( Camille Bourniquel), Galerie Drouin, Paris, 1946. * Camille Bourniquel, ''Jean Le Moal'', Le Musée de Poche, Éditions Georges Fall, Paris, 1960. * ''Le Moal'', (Bernard Dorival), Musées de

and Musée d'État, Luxembourg 1963. * ''Jean Le Moal'', (

Gaston Diehl Gaston Diehl (10 August 1912 – 12 December 1999) was a French professor of art history and an art critic. Biography Diehl graduated from the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie in 1934 and the Ecole du Louvre in 1936. In October 1935, Diel and his ...

, Maurice Jacquemont, Michel-Georges Bernard), Musées de

and

, 1970 and 1971. * ''Le Moal'', (Jean Guichard-Meili), Galerie de France, Paris, 1974. * ''Jean Le Moal'', (Thierry Raspail, Odile Plassard, Jean-Jacques Lerrant, Michel-Georges Bernard), Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain,

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie,

, Galerie-Maison de la culture,

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(Luxembourg), Musée d'art contemporain,

and Château des ducs de Bretagne,

, 1990–1992 * ''Jean Le Moal'', (Francis Villadier, Alin Avila, Michel-Georges Bernard), Musée d'art et d'histoire,

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, 1997. * Michel-Georges Bernard, ''Jean Le Moal'', Éditions Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2001 (208 p.). * ''Jean Le Moal, Un chemin de lumière, De chapelles en cathédrales, l'œuvre-vitrail'', Musée Pierre-Noël, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, 2008 (48 p.).

External links

Jean Le Moal, ''Océan'', 1958–1959, Musée de Quimper, France {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Moal, Jean 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters 21st-century French painters 21st-century French male artists 1909 births 2007 deaths Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Biography

Selective bibliography

See also

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