Welcome back to New York, Jean Messagier! enthused, at the end of her presentation text for “La Belle lumière, paintings 1980-1994”, the art critic Rachel Stella. There is something to marvel at: from March 16 to April 29, eleven acrylics on canvas by the Comtois painter illuminate the picture rails of the Ceysson & Bénétière gallery on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. New York therefore. With storefront.
In 1953 with Soulages
Long before his death in 1999 in Colombier-Fontaine (25) at the age of 79, the notoriety of Jean Messagier famous for its creativity and constantly renewed forms, had already crossed the French borders. The presence of his paintings – produced during the last period of his career – is therefore less an event here because of the place than of the time. Fifty-nine years indeed that the Big…
