The child in the red dress by François LEGRAND

Encouraged in the artistic path from adolescence by the painter Philippe Lejeune, whose studio he frequented, François LEGRAND became a friend and disciple of the master from Étampes. In 1971, he was one of the first students of the new municipal workshop of plastic arts created by Lejeune in Étampes. "The colors he uses, reds, mauves, luminous whites, correspond to his discreet message of simple humanity. He sheds the superfluous, the anecdotal, much like in his landscapes with authentic primitivism. The sobriety of tone, the order of enduring things, aligns with a primitivism tinged by the monumentality of discourse. François Legrand reinterprets the lessons of the past in light of his time." - Lydia Harambourg, French art historian and critic.