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
“SIMEONE”
tempera on canvas, 60 x 100cm, (23 1/2 x 39 1/2in),
signed on reverse, 1952
EXHIBITED:
“Séminaire des Arts”, Brussells, 1952
Galerie Editions Lahumière, Paris
Galerie Galarté, Paris, 1987
LITERATURE:
“Témoignages pour l’Art Abstrait”, Alvard & Gindertael, Paris, 1952, (illus. p.93)
“Jean Deyrolle”, Catalogue Raisonné, Georges Richar-Rivier [no.52.02]
Awards:
1946 Prix Kandinsky
1955 Prix Biennale de Menton
YOULA (JULES) CHAPOVAL (1919-1951)
“COMPOSITION, 1949”
oil on canvas, 40 x 31cm (15¾ x 12¼in)
signed indistinctly lower right,
painted circa 1949
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection Jeanne Chapoval
Awards:
1947 Prix de la Jeune Peinture (2nd)
1949 Prix Kandinsky
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
“LASAghA”
oil on canvas, 100 x 81cm, (39 ½ x 32in)
signed and dated, January 1958,
also signed, dated, and titled on reverse
Awards:
1950 Prix Fénéon
“TÊTE”
bronze, height inc base 42cm (161/2in)
signed, and numbered 3/10
and bears foundry mark, “Cire Perdue, Busato, Paris”
created c.1955
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, Georges Fall
This work is accompanied by a letter from the artist.
Awards:
1952 Prix Fénéon
1957 Prix de Sculpture d'Auvers-sur-Oise
1957 Prix André Susse
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
“VISAGE II”
oil with sand on canvas laid on panel,
52 x 35cm (20 1/2 x 13 3/4in)
signed lower right,
painted c.1950
Awards:
1939 Prix de Rome
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
“LES ARBRES”
oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm (39 1/2 x 39 1/2in),
signed and dated lower right, 1954; also signed, titled and dated on reverse
EXHIBITED:
“Abstrakte Maler”, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 1956, (no.50, cat. illus.)
“Art Abstrait”, Galerie Ann Abels, Cologne, 1958, (no.13)
Awards:
1953 Prix de la Critique
“MRS BUTTERFLY”
oil on canvas, 54 x 65cm (21 1/4 x 25 1/2in)
signed lower left,
and titled and dated on reverse, VII.LXXV
LITERATURE:
"Max Papart", Roger Green, Rizzoli,1984, (illus. p.90)
Awards:
1948 Prix de l'Union Méditerranéenne
1948 Prix Hallmark
1950 Prix de la Critique
1950 Prix de la Jeune Peinture
1951 Prix Biennale de Menton
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
YOULA (JULES) CHAPOVAL (1919-1951)
“NATURE MORTE AVEC CAFETIÈRE”
oil on canvas, 50 x 65cm (19¾ x 25½in)
signed and dated lower right, “IV 1946”
Awards:
1947 Prix de la Jeune Peinture (2nd)
1949 Prix Kandinsky
“L’INTERIEUR”
oil on canvas, 115 x 73cm (45 1/4 x 28 3/4in)
signed lower left,
painted c.1950
Awards:
1946 Prix de la Jeune Peinture (2nd)
RAYMOND GUERRIER (1920-2002)
“LE FRUIT ORANGE”
oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm (39 1/4 x 39 1/4 in)
signed lower left, also signed titled and dated on reverse, 1968
EXHIBITED:
Guerrier 1933-1996, Galerie Florence-Basset, Paris, 1996, No. 28
Museum Saint-Denis, 1972, No.69
Museum of Le Havre, 1972, No.19
LITERATURE:
Raymond Guerrier, Nice-Matin, (illustr.)
Raymond Guerrier, Frégate (illust.)
Awards:
1953 Prix de la Jeune Peinture
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
“COULITZ”
tempera on canvas, 81 x 100cm, (32 x 39 1/2in),
signed lower right; titled on reverse; painted 1957
EXHIBITED:
“Oeuvres Franco-Danoises”, Galerie Kunsternes, Copenhagen, 1958
“Jean Deyrolle”, Galerie de France, Paris, 1959
LITERATURE:
“Jean Deyrolle”, Catalogue Raisonné, Georges Richar-Rivier [no.57-25]
Awards:
1946 Prix Kandinsky
1955 Prix Biennale de Menton
“LE BASSIN D’ARCACHON”
oil on canvas, 50 x 60cm (19¾ x 23½in)
signed lower right; also signed on reverse
painted c.1960
EXHIBITED: Salon de Mai, Paris
Awards:
1955 Prix Biennale de Menton
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.
“L’ORCHESTRE”
oil on canvas, 110 x 100cm (43¾ x 39½in)
signed and dated lower right, 1960
EXHIBITED: “Expression Nouvelle”, Galerie Synthèse, Paris, 1960
Awards:
1955 Prix Lissone
“COMPOSITION, 1952”
oil on canvas, 31 x 23cm (12 1/4 x 9in)
signed and dated lower centre, 1952
Awards:
1957 Prix Lissone
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.
PIERRE DMITRIENKO (1925-1974)
“COMPOSITION, 1950”
oil on canvas, 120 x 60cm (47 1/4 x 23 1/2in)
signed and dated lower left, “P. Dmitrienko 1950”
also signed and dated on reverse of canvas, upper centre: “Pierre Dmitrienko 1950”
EXHIBITED:
Salon de Mai, Paris, 1950
LITERATURE:
To be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the artist’s work, currently being prepared by Rurik Dmitrienko.
Awards:
1960 Prix Marzotto (2nd)
“NATURA MORTA CUBISTE”
oil on panel, 40 x 20cm, (15 3/4 x 8in)
signed and dated upper right, 1951
also signed and dated on reverse and inscribed “Paris”
Awards:
1931 Prix Antonio
1932 Prix Arte Sacra
1960 Prix Marzotto (nominee)
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.
“PAQUIER”
bronze, 70x52x42cm, 1951
signed, and numbered 3 of an edition of 3, also bears foundry name, Susse Fondeur, Paris
EXHIBITED:
“Emile Gilioli rétrospective”, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1979 (illus. p.19)
PROVENANCE:
Duvivier Private Collection, Belgium.
LITERATURE:
“L’Oeil”, 1956 (reproduced on front cover)
“Emile Gilioli”, Éditions Arted, Paris, 1972 (illus. p.95)
“Gilioli sculptures”, J. Dopange, Hazan, 1976 (illus. no. 72)
Awards:
1957 Prix Biennale de Sao Paulo
1959 Prix Carrara
JEAN CHEVOLLEAU (1924-1996)
“LE BANJO”
oil on canvas, 22 x 33cm, (8 1/2 x 13in)
signed lower left, also signed and titled on reverse
Awards:
1956 Prix du Palais Royale
1960 Prix du Gemmail