Nationality French | Movement Abstract art | |
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Known for Paintings, drawings, collages Died 24 October 2014, Paris, France | ||
Jean-Michel Coulon (1920-2014) was a French painter from the School of Paris who had the particularity of having kept his work – over 600 paintings – almost secret over his artistic lifetime. Exhibits took place in Paris at the Jeanne Bucher Gallery in 1949 and 1950 and in Brussels in 1971.
Being well introduced in the artistic movement of the 40s and 50s, he was acquainted with Nicolas de Staël, Serge Poliakoff, André Lanskoy, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, met Picasso, in particular with his brother in law Olivier Debré. He then gradually isolated himself to the point of rarely mentioning his painting.
He was the son of Jean-Paul Coulon, First President of the Court of Appeals of Orléans, then chair of the second chamber of the Court of Appeals of Paris, the grandson of Georges Coulon, Vice-President of the Council of State from 1898 to 1912 under Gambetta, and the great-grandson of Eugène Pelletan and Eugène Scribe.