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  • PRIX KANDINSKY

     

    Created by Nina Kandinsky in memory of her husband Wassily Kandinsky who died in 1944. The prize ran from 1946–1961 and was held at the avant-garde Galerie Denise René in Paris. Championing young abstract artists, early jury members included the art critics Leon Degand , Charles Estienne and Wilhelm Uhde.


    Winners:
    1946 Jean DEWASNE & Jean DEYROLLE
    1947 Serge POLIAKOFF
    1948 Max BILL & Jean LEPPIEN
    1949 Youla CHAPOVAL & Marie RAYMOND
    1950 Richard MORTENSEN
    1951 Jean DEGOTTEX
    1952 Pablo PALAZUELO
    1953 Alexandre ISTRATI
    1955 Natalia DUMITRESCO
    1960 Eduardo CHILLIDA
    1961 Piero DORAZIO

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    PRIX FÉNÉON

     

    Founded in Paris by the curator and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune director Felix Fénéon’s widow in 1949 using proceeds from part of their collection.  The prize was organised by the Sorbonne and championed young emerging artists (under 36yrs old), and continues to this day. A prize for literature is run in tandem.

    Winners:
    1949 Pierre PALLUT
    1950 Maurice VERDIER & Jean SIGNOVERT
    1951 Paul REBEYROLLE, Louis DERBRE & Pierre PRUVOST
    1952 Marcel FIORINI
    1953 André COTTAVOZ & Jean FUSARD
    1954 René LAUBIES, R-E GILLET, Lucien FLEURY, Jack CHAMBRUN
    1955 Huguette BERTRAND, Jacques PETIT, Dominique MAYET, Philippe BONNET
    1956 Luc SIMON, J-C BERTRAND
    1957 Guy de VOGUE, Bernard SABY, Pierre PARSUS, Gabriel GODARD
    1958 René ARTOZOUL
    1959 André RAFAN, Piero GRAZIANO, Henri CUECO, Paul BRAUDEY, Gilles AILLAUD
    1960 Christian LEMESLE
    1961 Alain MATHIOT
    1962 Jean RAVAL
    1963 Michel COUCHAT, Pierre ANFOSSO
    1964 Michel PARRE, J-P PERARO, Jean PARSY

    1965 Roger PICARD, Pierre BURAGLIO, Joel KERMARREC
    1966 Alexandre BONNIER, Michel FAUBLEE
    1967 Philippe LEVANTAL, Michel FAUBLEE
    1968 Michel MALY
    1969 Pierre GASTE, M-P DAMIRON

  • PRIX DE ROME

     

    Established by King Louis XIV in 1663, the Prix de Rome enabled emerging artists from France to study at the Academie de France in Rome. Emulated by other countries, it became one of the longest-standing awards, only ended in 1968 by André Malraux, the French minister of cultural affairs, following the student riots. When Reynold Arnould (a close friend of Andre Malraux) received the prize in 1939, at the onset of World War II, the prize winners were accommodated in the Villa Paradiso in Nice.

     

    [Image: 1939 winners: Alice Richter 2nd and Reynold Arnould 1st]

     

    Winners:

    1939 Reynold ARNOULD
    1943 Pierre-Yves TRÉMOIS
    1944 George PICHON
    1945 Pierre-Marie GUYENOT
    1946 José FABRI-CANTI
    1947 Éliane BEAUPUY
    1948 Francois ORLANDINI
    1949
    1950 Francoise BOUDET
    1951 Daniel SÉNÉLIER
    1952 Paul GUIRAMAND
    1953 André BRASILIER
    1954 Armand SINKO
    1955 Paul AMBILLE
    1956 Henri THOMAS
    1957 Arnaud d’Hauterives
    1958 Raymond HUMBERT
    1959 Arlette BUDY
    1960 Pierre CARRON

  • PRIX DE LA CRITIQUE

     

    Founded by the ambitious young dealer Jean Rumeau in 1948 at his Galerie Saint-Placide which he opened at 41 rue Saint-Placide in Paris the previous year. The jury consisted of leading critics aspiring to emulate the similarly named (but separate) literature prize.

     

    [Image: André Minaux receiveing the award from Jean Rumean in 1949]

     

    Winners:


    1948 Bernard BUFFET & Bernard LORJOU
    1949 André MINAUX
    1950 Max PAPART, & Jean COUTY
    1951 Joseph PRESSMANE
    1952 Yvonne MOTTET
    1953 Jean LE MOAL; Gaston SEBIRE; Yvonne MOTTET
    1954 Paul BERCOT
    1955 Maurice SARTHOU; Raoul PRADIER
    1956  Sayed Haider RAZA
    1957 Jean MARZELLE; Pierre CARRON
    1959 Jean GACHET
    1960 Raymond LEGUELT

  • PRIX DE LA JEUNE PEINTURE

     

    Founded in 1946 by the Parisian gallerists Armand Drouant and Emmanuel David, who collaborated from 1942-1956, at their Galerie Drouant-David on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. The prize was for artists under 30 years old.

     

    [Image: Announcement in "Les Lettres Francaises", 29th March 1946]

     

    Winners:

    1946 Pierr PALLUT, 2nd Marcel BURTIN
    1947 Marcel CALMETTES
    1948 Jean CORTOT
    1949
    1950 Max PAPART; Paul REBEYROLLE
    1951 Richard BELLIAS
    1952 Maurice ROCHER
    1953 Raymond GUERRIER, Francis GRUBER
    1954 Jean POLLET
    1955 Roland BIACABE
    1956 Jacques WINSBERG

     

  • BIENNALE DE MENTON

     

    Started as the “Biennale de Peinture de France” in 1951 by the fauvist painter Roger Limouse, supported by Matisse, Chagall, as well honorary committee members Georges Wildenstein and Prince Rainier. The event in Menton on the Côte d’Azur between Monaco and the Italian border, began initially in resistance to the avant-garde, but by the mid-fifties a coup by the “Beauborgian” modernists transformed it into the “Biennale Internationale de Menton” attracting artists from the international avant-garde.

     

    Winners include: Serge POLIAKOFF, Roger HUMBLOT, Max PAPART, Jean DEYROLLE, Jean PIAUBERT, Jacques BUSSE, Edmond BOISSONNET, Léon ZACK

  • PRIX LISSONE

     

    The Premio Lissone was started in 1946 near Milan, by a group of local cultural figures. Initially for Italian artists, but it broadened to European in 1952, becoming a prestigious event before succumbing to the student protests of 1968.

     

    Winners include: Theodor WERNER, Jean LOMBARD, Oscar GAUTHIER, Valerio ADAMI, Antoni TAPIES, Joan MITCHELL.

  • PREMIO MARZOTTO

     

    Founded in 1950 by wealthy Italian art collecting Marzotto family in Valdagno, from the textile manufacturing dynasty, with a substantial initial prize fund of 40million Lira it went on to include literature, theatre, philosophy, economics, medicine, and journalism. The competition constituted 100 artists from the European Community and became highly prestigious, with the exhibitions travelling around Europe. Its end in 1968 was a result of the student protests.

     

    Winners include: Carlo CARRA, Lucio FONTANA, Pierre DMITRIENKO, Sebastian MATTA, Alberto BURRI, Wilfredo LAM, ARMAN, Pierre ALECHINSKY.

  • PRIX CARRARA

     

    The Biennale Internazionale di Scultura, Carrara, was started by local dignitary Antonio Bernieri in 1957 at the home of the famous Carrara marble quarry. Aspiring to rejuvenate the use of marble and discard its fascist neo-classical connotations, the event proved hugely successful, continuing until 2010 with participants from Henry Moore to Anthony Gormley.