JEAN HÉLION

 “Milestones” – Didier Ottinger

“They sent me to Les Halles to do a survey of the architecture of Baltard, I saw my first butchers there. I never forgot them. "

Jean Hélion (memory of his work as an apprentice in an architectural workshop, c. 1921)


From the most radical abstraction of the early 1930s to the great frescoes of the May 1968 demonstrations, a tribute to a lucid artist who refuses intransigence and dogmatism. "


With 41 reproductions including 12 in color and 12 photographs (workshops and friends).
Of a superb Orthogonal composition from 1930 to Serious parody from 1979.

Illustrated endpapers : workshops in Virginia, 1937 and in Paris, 1986.

.Chronological benchmarks (1904-1987)
.Bibliographic references
.Jean Hélion in the Mnam collections


Illustrated cardboard (To the Cyclist, 1939)




Author(s)
Didier Ottinger
Bar code
9782858506644
Collection
“Milestones”
Release date
1992
Dimensions
24 x 30.5 cm.
Editor(s)
Editions du Center Pompidou
Main language(s)
FRENCH
Number of pages
62





 “Milestones” – Didier Ottinger “They sent me to Les Halles to do a survey of the architecture of Baltard, I saw my first butchers there. I never forgot them. " Jean Hélion (memory of his work as an apprentice in an architectural workshop, c. 1921) " From the most radical abstraction of the early 1930s to the great frescoes of the May 1968 demonstrations, a tribute to a lucid artist who refuses intransigence and dogmatism. " With 41 reproductions including 12 in color and 12 photographs (workshops and friends). Of a superb Orthogonal composition from 1930 to Serious parody from 1979. Illustrated endpapers : workshops in Virginia, 1937 and in Paris, 1986. .Chronological benchmarks (1904-1987) .Jean Hélion in the Mnam collections Illustrated cardboard (To the Cyclist, 1939) Editions du Cente