Jean Pons

Composition, 1950

1950

Jean Pons was born in 1913 in Paris and died in 2005. He was a great French artist of the 20th century. In 1938, he founded his lithography studio which allowed him to work with all the great artists of the century such as Nicolas de Staël, Serge Charchoune, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky and Serge Poliakoff. In parallel, Jean created his pieces in an Expressionist style. Later on, he started working on classic subjects like dead nature, landscapes and portraits. In the late 30s, he turned towards abstraction and practised different techniques including collage and mixed techniques. But this period lasted only a short time and under the influence of the New Figuration movement, he took a figurative style. He kept his predilection for bright colors although his choice of colors softened gradually.