Jean-Michel Atlan Art
French, 1913-1960
Jean Michel Atlan was born in Constantine (Algeria) in 1913.
After his studies in Constantine, he came to Paris in 1930 to prepare a bachelor’s degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne. He prepared the courses, while teaching in various provincial schools until 1940. He was dismissed by the Vichy government and moved to Paris. He wrote poems of a surreal nature, not yet painted. He then content himself sometimes to illustrate his poetry with simple drawings.
Atlan began painting in 1941, in the middle of the war. His first works were expressionist. He contacted the Resistance and was arrested by the Germans; interned at Sainte-Anne, he simulated madness, which allowed him to «get out». After the long-awaited liberation, in 1944 Atlan participated in his first exhibitions, collective and individual. This date will be the starting point for many other exhibitions.
From 1945, Atlan created abstract and fantastic figurative animal forms influenced by the high primitivism of the Cobra group and participated in its exhibitions. Around 1956, Jean-Michel Atlan’s style was strengthened. Very marked black winding lines surround fields with pastel tones reminiscent of organic and plant associations and whose theme is combat and fantasy resulting from a vision of the agnostic and biologistic world. Atlan’s artistic breakthrough in 1956 was due to a poster that the artist designed for the exhibition of the new "Ecole de Paris" in the Charpentier gallery and for an exhibition in the Bing gallery in Paris. In the 1950s, Atlan, considered one of the most important representatives of the "New School of Paris", enjoyed strong recognition in France as in Japan, but also in England and the USA.
The artist died of cancer in Paris in 1960.
It has already been paid tribute to Jean-Michel Atlan in 1963 by a retrospective at the National Museum of Modern Art. It leaves about 220 works to posterity among which one finds tapestries and illustrations.to
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Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1957
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 87/100
Publisher : Editions le Musée de Poche, Paris
Printer : Jean Pons
Catalog : [Polieri 1747]
66.00 cm. x 50.00 c...
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1950s Abstract Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Lithograph
Les Hespérides
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1957
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annoted HC
Publisher : Le musée de Poche (Paris)
Printer : Jean Pons (Paris)
Catalog : Polieri, 1746
50.50 cm. x 66.00 cm. 19...
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1950s Abstract Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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JEAN MICHEL ATLAN - ABSTRACT - ORIGINAL DRAWING
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original felt pens on paper
Unique piece
Hand signed and dated in 1957
Rare piece from the Master
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1950s Abstract Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Felt Pen
Moonbird
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1954
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotatd EA 7/7
Edition : 220
Publisher : Guilde de la Gravure (Paris et Genève)
Printer : Mourlot (Paris)
Catalog : Polieri 1...
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Composition Original Drwaing Hand signed dated Unique piece
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original mixed media on paper
Pastel and color pencils
Hand signed lower right
Hand dated 1953
Unique piece
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1950s Abstract Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Pastel, Color Pencil
Jean-Michel Atlan - Kafka - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original lithograph by Jean-Michel Atlan
For Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
Paris, Maeght Publisher, 1946.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5
Edition: 300 on vellum
Mourlot
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Jean-Michel Atlan - Kafka - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original lithograph by Jean-Michel Atlan
For Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
Paris, Maeght Publisher, 1946.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5
Edition: 300 ...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Jean-Michel Atlan - Kafka - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original lithograph by Jean-Michel Atlan
For Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
Paris, Maeght Publisher, 1946.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5
Edition: 300 on vellum
Mourlot
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Jean-Michel Atlan - Kafka - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original lithograph by Jean-Michel Atlan
For Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
Paris, Maeght Publisher, 1946.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5
Edition: 300 on vellum
Mourlot
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Jean-Michel Atlan - Kafka - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original lithograph by Jean-Michel Atlan
For Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
Paris, Maeght Publisher, 1946.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5
Edition: 300 on vellum
Mourlot
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Jean-Michel Atlan - Kafka - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original lithograph by Jean-Michel Atlan
For Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
Paris, Maeght Publisher, 1946.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5
Edition: 300 on vellum
Mourlot
JEAN-MI...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Lithograph
Jean-Michel Atlan - Kafka - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original lithograph by Jean-Michel Atlan
For Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
Paris, Maeght Publisher, 1946.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5
Edition: 300 on vellum
Mourlot
JEAN-MI...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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Lithograph
Jean-Michel Atlan - Kafka - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original lithograph by Jean-Michel Atlan
For Description of a Struggle by Franz Kafka
Paris, Maeght Publisher, 1946.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24.5
Edition: 300 on vellum
Mourlot
JEAN-MI...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Jean-Michel Atlan Art
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EDUCATION
1944-49 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — Philadelphia, PA (1948 Cresson Scholar)
1949 The University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, PA
1948 The Academie de la Grand Chaumiere — Paris, France
1947 The Barnes Foundation — Merion, PA
1939-41 Samuel Fleisher Memorial School— Philadelphia, PA (also known as Graphic Sketch Club)
TEACHING HISTORY
Instructor: Painting & Drawing
1987-Present Art Students League, New York, NY
1989, 74, 69, 66, 63 San Francisco Institute of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1965-69 he School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1964 Art Center of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Guest Lecturer
1979 Pratt Institute, New York, NY
1974 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
1974 California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
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Located in Paris, FR
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East
Located in Paris, FR
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Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1957
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annotated "Epreuve artiste"
Edition : 150
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