Jean-Charles Blais

Jean-Charles Blais, Sans titre, 1989, détail

Collection privée, Paris / Dépôt à la Collection Lambert, Avignon
© Jean-Charles Blais

Born in 1956
French nationality
Artistic movement : free figuration
Number of works in the collection : 36

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QUOTES FROM THE ARTIST

“I am an artist who has no idea, no subject in mind, no project. My painting is without intention…”

“I paint figures that are no characters but objects […]. The body has become a piece of paint.”

IN THE EYES OF YVON LAMBERT

“It took some collective exhibitions featuring this young artist, just get out of l’école des beaux-arts de Rennes , for me to decide to represent him in the gallery. I had already begun in the early 1980s to sketch a major turning point in my life as a art dealer, by exhibiting a little timidly paintings rather figurative, which totally broke with my usual, always arduous and radical program…”