James Coignard Abstract Paintings
French, b. 1925
James Coignard, painter, ceramist, sculptor and etcher, was born in Tours in 1925. At the age of 23 and after a brief career in the French administration, he discovers the landscapes of the French Riviera and decides to study at Arts décoratifs in Nice. Four years later, he quits his job at the administration to commit himself entirely to his artistic career. The encounter with Paul Hervieu in 1950 is decisive. His collaboration with gallery Hervieu made him known in artistic circles, nationally and internationally and then particularly in Scandinavia. At the beginning of his career, art critics label James Coignard as a member of Ecole de Paris. Soon, his painting and ceramic distances themselves from those of his colleagues and he goes it alone. At the beginning of the sixties, he starts to work with glass but the technical turning point occurs in 1968 when his friend Henri Goetz discovers a new etching technique, using carborundum. Etching then becomes central in his work. At the same time, his career takes off internationally. He travels a lot, especially to Sweden and USA where he lives during a few years. 1978, James Coignard participates in the creation of the etching studio Pasnic, with which he starts a long collaboration. During the eighties, he shares his time between Paris and the French Riviera and takes an interest in artist’s books and publishing issues. He exhibits now all over the world, and is acknowledged as one of the greatest painter-etchers of his time. Until his decease in 2008, James Coignard was a prolific painter, sculptor and etcher and leaves behind an immense work.to
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Artist: James Coignard
Deux rouges
By James Coignard
Located in Malmo, SE
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Size without frame: 81x65 cm (Size with frame 88x73 cm)
“With just a few strokes of his brush he conjures up an entire w...
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Early 2000s Abstract James Coignard Abstract Paintings
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Oil
Deux bleus III
By James Coignard
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 97 x 81 cm.
Frame size: 105 × 89 cm.
Signed, titled and dated on the verso.
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Frame in wood white gold.
“Wi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary James Coignard Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
French Pop Art Modernist Textured Brown Painting Abstract By James Coignard
By James Coignard
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
By French post-war artist James Coignard (1925-2008).
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Late 20th Century Post-War James Coignard Abstract Paintings
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Mixed Media, Oil, Etching
Composition bleu.
By James Coignard
Located in Malmo, SE
Frame in wood white gold.
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Size without frame: 71 x 51 cm (Size with frame 77 x 58 cm)
“With just a few strokes of his b...
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1990s Abstract James Coignard Abstract Paintings
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Paper, Oil
Sant titre (buveuse)
By James Coignard
Located in Malmo, SE
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Size without frame: 63x36 cm (Size with frame 84x56 cm)
“With just a few strokes of his brush he conjures up an entire world. James Coignard extends the boundaries between concrete and abstract. He knows how to create chromatic melodies that shift in timbre from cobalt blue to blood red. His pictures are an artistic epicentre where lines, letters and numbers meld with vigorous swashes of colour.” That is how the writer Johan Persson has described the artist’s paintings. With this exhibition we honour James Coignard, showing some of his last carborundum engravings and paintings as well as presenting the book “L’œuvre gravé de James Coignard” volume VI. In this edition, we have gathered together all the engravings that James Coignard produced between June 2005 and his decease, on 7 March 2008. Behind him he left many fond memories and a life’s work as a great artist. James Coignard’s principal modes of expression were oil on canvas and gravure au carborundum, but also in bronze and glass sculptures as well as in ceramics. His work has been shown on more than 400 exhibitions, primarily in Central Europe and Scandinavia, but also in Canada and the USA. His first Swedish exhibition was at Malmö Museum in 1956. The early 1970s saw the start of a long-term liaison with Galleri Östermalm in Stockholm, owned by Editions Sonet. They came to represent him in Scandinavia and edited several volumes of his graphic works. It was not until 2003 that we at Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström...
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Early 2000s Abstract James Coignard Abstract Paintings
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Les précédents
By James Coignard
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 81 x 100 cm.
Frame size: 87 x 106 cm.
Frame in wood white gold.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
“With just a few strokes of his brush he c...
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1980s Contemporary James Coignard Abstract Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
French Pop Art Modernist Textured Painting Abstract With Stencilled Letters
By James Coignard
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a mixed media abstract painting collage with string, plaster texture, stencilled letters in a bold typeface. Size includes frame.
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Les Jumeaux de Virginie
By James Coignard
Located in PARIS, FR
French painter, sculptor, engraver, James Coignard was born in Tours in 1925. He lived and worked in Antibes, in the Maritime Alps, and he died in March 2008.
Coignard began his studies in 1948 at the School of Fine Arts in Nice; however, his journey as an artist began in the Côte d'Azur, where he settled. In fact, Coignard traveled a lot, living for a period from 1985 to 1988 in New Orleans. His artistic career was marked by collective and personal exhibitions both in France and abroad (Sweden, Switzerland, the United States...), where he enjoyed fame and recognition.
Until the 1960s, his artistic development was characterized by an expressionistic style; then Coignard found himself moving towards an abstract one with random spots, regular shapes, typographical characters, and mixed media backgrounds.
He was a painter but also a sculptor, who experimented with bronze and with glass. His work as an engraver was also quite well-known.
James Coignard created his first glass sculpture in the 1970s at the Fucina degli Angeli. Only later, after meeting Adriano Berengo...
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1970s Abstract James Coignard Abstract Paintings
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Etching
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