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Jean-Michel Coulon (illustrator). Thre volumes, COMPLETE. 221, 191, 111 pp. Thousands of items beautifully reproduced and exhaustively described. The standard catalogue raisonné. Large 4tos, publisher's cloth and dustjackets. Slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Comme neuf. Edition originale. Paris 2021. 3 Volumes/3. -- Comme Neuf -- Reliures éditeur cartonnées pleines toiles sous jaquettes illustrées. Format in-4°( 29 x 25 cm )( 4570 gr )------- 221 , 191 , 111 pages.********************** Présentation éditeur : "" Jean-Michel Coulon a passé sa vie à créer, dessiner et peindre dans un secret quasi-absolu. Il ne laisse personne entrer dans son atelier. À sa mort en 2014, sa famille découvre une uvre structurée, intacte et inédite qui compte plus de 800 peintures et collages. Il nait à Bordeaux en 1920. Adolescent, il rencontre Picasso auquel il montre une représentation qu il a fait de la Sainte-Chapelle. Le maitre, que la perspective étonne, lui demande à garder le dessin. Coulon refuse et s enfuit en courant ! C est à 20 ans, lors d un voyage dans les Alpes, qu il décide de se consacrer entièrement à la peinture. D emblée ses uvres sont toutes abstraites. Au cours des années d après-guerre il est introduit dans les cercles artistiques comme la seconde Ecole de Paris et devient proche de peintres tels que Nicolas de Staël, André Lanskoy et Maria Henela Vieira da Silva et Arpad Szenes. Ses débuts sont prometteurs puisqu à 29 ans il expose seul à la galerie Jeanne Bucher dont le livre d or témoigne de la présence d artistes qui connaitront bientôt la célébrité. Parmi eux, Rothko, Vieillard, Deyrolle ou Arnal. L année suivante, en 1950, il participe à une exposition de groupe à New York. Ensuite il refusera presque toutes les propositions d exposition. Sa peinture évolue, notamment en matière de gamme chromatique, avec les événements familiaux qui l affectent. De même, son uvre reflète les événements plus joyeux de son mariage et des ses voyages aux Etats-Unis et en Italie. Ses toiles sont en majorité de petit format et d un style très épuré, juxtaposition verticales de couleurs de la largeur d un pinceau plat. Si la peinture à l huile représente la colonne vertébrale de l uvre de Jean-Michel Coulon, à partir des années 2000 il mettra sa créativité au service de collages chatoyants dans lesquels il met toute son énergie. Véritable frénésie créatrice à laquelle les toiles des huiles des années 50 et 60 servent de support. Cet ouvrage propose de découvrir le travail d un artiste dont le travail a été loué par ses pairs mais qui a semblé refuser la reconnaissance du grand public de son vivant. "" ******************** ////// "" Jean-Michel Coulon has spent his life creating, drawing and painting. in an almost absolute secrecy. He never let anyone enter his studio. When he died in 2014, his family discovered a structured, untouched and unpublished body of work that includes over 800 paintings and collages. He was born in Bordeaux in 1920. As a teenager, he met Picasso to whom he showed a representation he had made of the Sainte-Chapelle. The master, surprised by the perspective, asked him to keep the drawing. Coulon refused and ran away! It was at the age of 20, during a trip to the Alps, that he decided to devote himself entirely to painting. From the start, his works were all abstract. During the post-war years he was introduced to artistic circles such as the Second School of Paris and became close to painters such as Nicolas de Staël, André Lanskoy, Maria Henela Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szenes. His beginnings were promising, since at the age of 29 he exhibited alone at the Jeanne Bucher gallery, whose guest book bore witness to the presence of artists who would soon become famous. Among them were Rothko, Vieillard, Deyrolle and Arnal. The following year, in 1950, he participated in a group exhibition in New York. After that, he refused almost all exhibition proposals. His painting evolves, especially in terms of chromatic range, with the family events that affect him. Similarly, his work reflects the happier events of his marriage and his travels in the United States and Italy. His paintings are mostly small in size and very clean in style, vertical juxtapositions of colors the width of a flat brush. If oil painting represents the backbone of Jean-Michel Coulon's work, from the year 2000 he will put his creativity at the service of shimmering collages in which he puts all his energy. True creative frenzy to which the oil paintings of the 50s and 60s serve as a support. This book proposes to discover the work of an artist whose work has been praised by his peers but who seemed to refuse the recognition of the general public during his lifetime. "" **************************.