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Jean Messagier Art

French, 1920-1999

Jean Messagier was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet. Messagier spent his childhood during the 1920s and 1930s between Paris and Franche-Comté, where he realized his first representational watercolors and drawings, portraits and landscapes. Messagier had his first solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Arc-en-Ciel in 1947. From 1945–49, Messagier worked under the influence of Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Paul Klee and François Desnoyer, his professor at École Nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris.

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Original lithograph by Jean Messagier - Nouvelle École de Paris
Original lithograph by Jean Messagier - Nouvelle École de Paris

Original lithograph by Jean Messagier - Nouvelle École de Paris

By Jean Messagier

Located in PARIS, FR

A dazzling example of post-war lyrical abstraction, this original lithograph by Jean Messagier—hand-signed by the artist and numbered 74/90—bursts with color, spontaneity, and emotio...

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1980s Jean Messagier Art

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Paper, Lithograph

French Poster Signed by Jean Messagier, 1975 depicting Bronze Sculptures
French Poster Signed by Jean Messagier, 1975 depicting Bronze Sculptures

French Poster Signed by Jean Messagier, 1975 depicting Bronze Sculptures

By Jean Messagier

Located in Miami, FL

Original, midcentury poster dated 1975 from Gallerie Lovreglio in Nice, France. Signed by the artist Jean Messagier (1920-1999), multi-faceted artist. Measures: 17" W × 1" D × 24" H "Like the meanders of the Doubs so dear to Jean Messagier, the furrows that the artists on the paths of art history are sometimes complex and tortuous. Messagier, famous since the 1950s, exhibited all over the world, a friend of painters, rockstars and poets, began the 1980s with a retrospective exhibition at the Grand Palace (Paris) which then marks, paradoxically, the beginning of a certain forgetfulness. The reasons are many times that today the work of this immense artist is partly forgotten, in all unknown cases, and is probably the object of a misunderstanding. Messagier, abstract? Arise then these images of colorful tracery, this so-called "tile washer" painting, which was, he, is true, that of her first successes and her consecration, but which is only one of facets of a gigantic and protean work that has endlessly put itself in danger and to reinvent herself. The object of the retrospective imagined at the Musée de Dole in 2019 is clearly to show that Messagier was working beyond the issues of figuration and of abstraction, in an urgency to paint, to draw, to create, which has as principal obsession to respond to the cruel creativity of nature. Messagier, springtime specialist, ecologist almost before the hour, experimenter of frost painting winter, poet of the sap and pollen, draws his breath in that, vital, libidinal of nature. It's the same energy that pushed him to touch everything, with a freedom and a lack of interest manifest for opinion or criticism. It does not matter if we say crazy - on the contrary - Messagier the almost American abstract painter never finished with the figure or the figuration and allowed herself as early as the 1970s to both summon images from the popular culture like Goldorak, the Marsupilami, Betty Boop, glamorous figures like Lady Di or Greta Garbo, to jostle her masters by quoting Delacroix, Matisse, Picasso ... with total irreverence. These years 1970-1980, where will face jovial triviality, fried eggs, radishes, a thousand giant leafs...

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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Jean Messagier Art

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Paper

Homage a Hercule Seghers, Lithography by Jean Messagier

Homage a Hercule Seghers, Lithography by Jean Messagier

By Jean Messagier

Located in Long Island City, NY

Homage a Hercule Seghers Jean Messagier, French (1920–1999) Date: circa 1970 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 37/190 Size: 21 in. x 29.5 in. (53.34 cm x 74.93 cm)

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1970s Abstract Expressionist Jean Messagier Art

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Lithograph

Cezanne Among the Marsupials, Lithograph by Jean Messagier
Cezanne Among the Marsupials, Lithograph by Jean Messagier

Cezanne Among the Marsupials, Lithograph by Jean Messagier

By Jean Messagier

Located in Long Island City, NY

Cezanne Among the Marsupials Jean Messagier, French (1920–1999) Date: 1983 Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 200 Image Size: 19 x 27.5 inches Size: 21 x ...

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1980s Neo-Expressionist Jean Messagier Art

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Lithograph

Printemps à Mille Cœurs - Etching by Jean Messagier - 1970s

Printemps à Mille Cœurs - Etching by Jean Messagier - 1970s

By Jean Messagier

Located in Roma, IT

Printemps à mille cœurs is an artwork realized by the French artist Jean Messagier. Etching on paper, hand-signed on the lower right corner "Messagier", titled Printemps à mille coe...

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1970s Abstract Jean Messagier Art

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100 Francs in the Radishes
100 Francs in the Radishes

100 Francs in the Radishes

By Jean Messagier

Located in Long Island City, NY

100 Francs in the Radishes Jean Messagier, French (1920–1999) Date: 1983 Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 200 Image Size: 19 x 27.5 inches Size: 21 x 30...

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1970s Abstract Expressionist Jean Messagier Art

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Lithograph

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