Jean Michel Mathieux-Marie

The Brooklyn Bridge (view of Brooklyn Bridge pylons from below the bridge)

circa 1995

Mathieux-Marie was born in Paris in 1947 and has been honored throughout his career with awards and exhibitions. His unique style of using a diamond point to scratch an image into a steel plate is complemented by his own methods of printing on one paper in the style of chine colle. The image is then cut out and mounted to another stronger paper. He has done many engravings to illustrate livres d’artistes for the works of great writers like Michel Déon, Federico Garcia Lorca, Julien Gracq or Francis Ponge. While many of his subjects are recognizable as famous destinations in Paris, Rome and Venice, they go much further than mere illustration. He has also worked on fantastical subjects where the full range of his creativity can be seen. He was initially trained as a architect, receiving his degree in 1972, but was soon introduced to dry-point engraving in 1974. BIOGRAPHY 1947 Born in Paris 1971 Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1984 Prix de la ville au Salon de Bayeux 1984 Paul-Louis Weiller Prize, Academy of Fine Art 1994 Grand Prize du Salon des Artistes Francais PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Royal Academy of Fine Art in Madrid Bibliotheque Historique de Paros Musee Baron Gerard Bibliotheque de Bayeux National Library of Paris National Library of Spain Musee de Dignes