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Jean Hélion
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French
, 1904–1987)
Jean Hélion
Défence D',
1943
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1904
Born in Couterne, Orne (Normandy), France
1912 - 1918
Studied at the École d'Auguste Janvier, Amiens, France
1918 - 1919
Worked as pharmacist's assistant, Bagnoles-de-l'Orne
1920 - 1921
Studied chemistry, Institut Industriel du Nord, Lille, France
1921 - 1924
Assistant in architect's office
1921
Apprenticeship in an architect's office, Paris, France
1922
Studied architecture, Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Produced first paintings
1925 - 1926
Studied painting, Académie Adler, Paris
1925 - 1940
Full-time painter in Paris, France
1925
George Bine becomes his art patron
1929 - 1934
Founder-member, with Theo Van Doesburg, Otto Carlsund, and Leo Tutundjian, Art Concret group (renamed Abstraction-Creation group, 1930), Paris, France
1940 - 1942
Prisoner of War in Pomerania, Germany; escaped to the United States
1940
Joined the French Army
1942 - 1946
Full-time painter in Rockbridge Baths, VA, and in New York, NY
1946 - 1973
Full-time painter in Paris
1946
Returned to France
1963
Married Jacqueline Ventadour
1964
Designed the sets and costumes for King Lear, French television production, Paris
1972
Served in the French Army
1973 - 1987
Full-time painter in Bigeonnette
1979
Awarded Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris
Honorary member, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1984
Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, France
1987
Died Paris, France
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Exhibitions
2008
De Rodchenko a Sol Lewitt - Galerìa Guillermo de Osma, Madrid (group)
2007
X mal ICH - Städtische Galerie Fruchthalle Rastatt, Rastatt (group)
Die Erneuerung des Sehens - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (group)
2006
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)
2005
Jean Hélion - Museo Picasso, Barcelona (solo)
Hélion - Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris (solo)
2004
Jean Hélion - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris (solo)
2002
Hommage à François Pluchart - FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon (group)
1999
Drawing Exhibitions, Drawing Center, New York (traveled to Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles) (group)
1997
Galerie Piltzer Paris, France
1988
Zentrum fur Kunstausstellungen der D.D.R., Berlin (solo)
1984
Abstractionism and Everyday Myths, Lenbachhaus, Munich
1982
Musée d'Etat Luxembourg
1979
Hélion. Drawings 1930-1978, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Athens, Strasbourg
1977
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris, France
1976
Spencer Samuels Gallery, New York (solo)
1975
Galerie St. Germain, Paris (solo)
1972
Galerie René Andrieu, Toulouse (solo)
1969
Galleria Eunomia, Milan
1967
Willard Gallery, New York
1966
Leicester Galeries, London
1965
Leicester Galeries, London
1964
Paintings from 1929 to 1964, Gallery of Modern Art New York, NY
1962
Peintures 1929-1939, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (solo)
1961
Calerie Cahiers d'Art, Paris (solo)
1958
Calerie Cahiers d'Art, Paris (solo)
1956
Calerie Cahiers d'Art, Paris (solo)
1944
Recent Work, Museum of Fne Art Baltimore, MD
1937
San Francisco Museum of Art (solo)
1936
The Valentine Gallery New York, NY
1933
Gallery John Becker, New York (solo)
1932
Galerie Pierre Paris, France(solo)
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