Jean Legros - Musical model Geometric Abstraction

Jean legros (1917-1981) - musical model oil on cardboard. Dimensions: 10.7 X 37.7 cm; with frame: 25.5 X 52.5 cm studio stamp on the back. “he couldn't wait, ” said aurélie nemours, the french high priestess of concrete art, of jean legros – who committed suicide in 1981. Indeed, although supported by strong intellectual friendships, he waited in vain understanding and recognition of a highly spiritual abstract work. Degree in philosophy and psychology, intellectual, writer and color theorist (his notebooks shed light on his research on the meaning and expressiveness of color), his refusal to exhibit between 1956 and 1969, then his withdrawal from the world and his installation in 1960 in a workshop in beauce, did not promote the commercial distribution of his work. This intellectual and demanding solitude did not prevent him from having admired malevitch, mondrian, herbin, arp and dewasne, of whom he was a pupil. He was also a fine connoisseur of american abstracts and minimalists such as barnett newman or ad reinhardt. A few enlightened eyes have however defended its limpid and spiritual abstraction, such as andréi nakov, specialist and cataloger of the work of casimir malevich, françois mathey, imre pan or the galerie lahumière in paris. Careful delivery or hand delivery in paris.