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Jean Helion Biography
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1904 |
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Born Couterne, Orne (Normandy), France
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1912 - 1918 |
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Studied at the Ecole Auguste janvier, Amiens
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1918 - 1919 |
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Worked as pharmacist's assistant, Bagnoles-de-l'Orne
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1920 - 1921 |
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Studied chemistry, Institut Industriel du Nord, Lille
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1921 |
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Apprenticeship in an architect's office Paris, France
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1922 |
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Studied architecture, Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
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1922 |
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Produced first paintings
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1921 - 1924 |
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Assistant in architect's office
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1925 |
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George Bine becomes his art patron
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1925 - 1926 |
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Studied painting, Academie Adler, Paris
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1929 - 1934 |
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Founder-member, with Theo Van Doesburg, Otto Carlsund and Leo Tutundjian, Art Concret group (renamed Abstraction-Creation group, 1930), Paris
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1925 - 1940 |
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Full-time painter in Paris
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1940 |
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Joined the French Army and was mobilized
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1940 - 1942 |
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Prisoner of War in Pomerania, Escaped to the U.S.A.
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1942 - 1946 |
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Full-time painter in Rockbridge Baths, Virginia, and New York
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1963 |
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Married Jacqueline Ventadour
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1964 |
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Designed the sets and costumes for King Lear, French television production, Paris
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1972 |
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Served in the French Army
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1946 - 1973 |
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Full-time painter in Paris
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1979 |
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Awarded Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris
Honorary member, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
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1984 |
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Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, France
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1973 - 1987 |
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Full-time painter in Bigeonnette
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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De Rodchenko a Sol Lewitt - Galerìa Guillermo de Osma, Madrid (group)
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2007
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X mal ICH - Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle Rastatt, Rastatt (group)
Die Erneuerung des Sehens - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (group)
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2006
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Orangerie, 1934 - les Peintres de la réalité - Musée National de l´Orangerie, Paris (group)
Exil und Moderne – H.W. Janson und die Sammlung der Washington University in St. Louis - Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg (group)
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2005
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Jean Hélion - Museo Picasso, Barcelona (solo)
Hélion - Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris (solo)
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2004
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Jean Hélion - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris (solo)
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2002
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Hommage à François Pluchart - FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon (group)
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1999
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Drawing Exhibitions, Drawing Center, New York (traveled to Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles) (group)
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1997
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Galerie Piltzer Paris, France
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1988
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Zentrum fur Kunstausstellungen der D.D.R., Berlin (solo)
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1984
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Abstractionism and Everyday Myths, Lenbachhaus, Munich
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1982
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Musée d'Etat Luxembourg
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1979
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Hélion. Drawings 1930-1978, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Athens, Strasbourg
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1977
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Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris, France
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1976
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Spencer Samuels Gallery, New York (solo)
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1975
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Galerie St. Germain, Paris (solo)
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1972
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Galerie René Andrieu, Toulouse (solo)
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1969
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Galleria Eunomia, Milan
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1967
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Willard Gallery, New York
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1966
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Leicester Galeries, London
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1965
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Leicester Galeries, London
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1964
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Paintings from 1929 to 1964, Gallery of Modern Art New York, NY
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1962
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Peintures 1929-1939, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (solo)
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1961
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Calerie Cahiers d'Art, Paris (solo)
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1958
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Calerie Cahiers d'Art, Paris (solo)
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1956
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Calerie Cahiers d'Art, Paris (solo)
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1944
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Recent Work, Museum of Fne Art Baltimore, MD
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1937
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San Francisco Museum of Art (solo)
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1936
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The Valentine Gallery New York, NY
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1933
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Gallery John Becker, New York (solo)
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1932
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Galerie Pierre Paris, France(solo)
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