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Nationality
  
French

Education
  
Beaux-Arts d'Avignon


Movement
  
Groupe de l'Atelier

Name
  
Michel Trinquier

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Born
  
12 October 1931 (
1931-10-12
)
Avignon

Awards
  
Grand Prix du Festival d'Avignon, 1961

Known for
  
Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Collage

Michel Trinquier (Avignon, 12 October 1931) is a French painter.

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Biography

He starts painting in studying after school at "collège Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle in Avignon and becomes member of the "Groupe de l'Atelier". He is also found of paleontology.

In the 1960s he discovers Belle-Ile, an island in the Atlantic ocean and he starts to work through "collages" including sand, ropes or shellfish in his paintings.

In 1961 he receives the "Grand prix de peinture du festival d'art dramatique d'Avignon" for a painting now in musée Calvet in Avignon.

Main exhibitions

  • 1973 : Galerie Barbizon, rue des Saint-Pères in Paris
  • 1973 : Galerie Transposition, boulevard Raspail in Paris
  • 1987 : Salon international d'art contemporain in Toulouse
  • 1992 : Galerie Bonias in L'Isle-sur-Sorgue
  • 1993 : fondation Vasarely in château de Gordes
  • 1995 : Galerie Vincente Beneat in Barcelona

    • Books

    Michel Trinquier has illustrated a poetry book together with Eugène Baboulène, Pierre Cayol, Hervé Di Rosa and Pierre François , les 81 poèmes de Claude Garcia-Forner, Rayon Bleu

    References

    Michel Trinquier Wikipedia
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