PARIS.- kamel mennour announced the exclusive international representation of the work of Jean Degottex (1918–1988) and to contribute, in partnership with the Jean Degottex Committee, to the promotion and diffusion of his work.

The gallery will be presenting a solo booth of works by Jean Degottex at TEFAF NY from 6 to 10 May and a solo exhibition of the artist at the gallery 47 rue Saint‑André‑des‑Arts from 8 June to 23 July.

A major artist of the second half of the twentieth century, Jean Degottex was a French abstract painter, whose prolific artistic career spanned over nearly fifty years.

A significant inspiration for many artists and intellectuals, known in particular for his proximity with the lyrical abstraction movement, and for arousing André Breton’s public admiration, Degottex followed a singular path. He produced a singular work, with a strict economy of means, where rigor never took precedence over sensitivity. From gesture to sign, from sign to writing, from writing to the line, each time period exhausted formal possibilities to pave the way for the next.

Jean Degottex was the recipient of the Kandinsky Prize in 1951 and the French National Painting Prize in 1981. His works are present in many public collections, including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris), the Guggenheim (New York), the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis) and the Gutai Pinacotheca (Osaka).

“We are delighted at the gallery to be able to accompany the artist’s beneficiaries in a re‑reading of this essential work and to give this major and complex artistic production the international notoriety it deserves.” Kamel Mennour