Jean Degottex

Born in 1918 in Sathonay-Camp (France), JEAN DEGOTTEX moved to Paris in 1933 where he died in 1988.

His work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions in museums and institutions such as the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels, 1961), the Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne, Germany, 1965), the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (1970), the Centre Pompidou (Paris, 1981) and the Hong Kong Arts Center (1996).

His work was also shown in many group shows such as the Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1953), the Documenta (II) (Kassel, Germany, 1959), the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, USA, 1959), the 32nd Venice Biennale (1964), the 8th Bienal São Paulo (1965), the National Gallery (Washington, 1968), the Grand Palais (Paris, 1972, 1985), the Musée d’art Moderne de Paris (1977, 1998), the Centre Pompidou (1977, 1998), the Museum of the 20th Century (Vienna, 1982), the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, 1987), the Museum of Fine Arts (Bucarest, 1988), the Ludwig Museum (Cologne, 2000), the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery (2005), the Musée Rath (Geneva, Switzerland, 2011), the Centre Pompidou-Metz (Metz, France, 2014), the Stefan Gierowski Foundation (Varsovia, Poland, 2019), the Pushkin Museum (Moscow, 2019).

His works are present in prestigious collections in France: Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris), MAC VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine), Musée Cantini (Marseille), Musées d’arts de Nantes, Grenoble, Toulon; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, Dijon and various FRAC (Bretagne, Normandie, Occitanie Montpellier, Pays de la Loire, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur); and in the world: Royal Museums of Fine Arts (Brussels), Fondation Gandur pour l’Art (Geneva), Museum of Modern Art (Vienna), Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach, Germany), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis), Nakanoshima Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan), Ōhara Museum of Art (Kurashiki, Japan), among others.

Degottex won the Kandinsky Prize in 1951 and was awarded the Grand National Prize of Painting (Grand Prix National de la Peinture) in 1981.

Mennour represents exclusively and internationally the work of Jean Degottex (1918–1988) in partnership with the Comité Jean Degottex.

More info: www.jeandegottex.com

Works

Exhibitions & News

Poèmes Partitions D - © Mennour
Jean Degottex, Bernard Heidsieck, Poèmes Partitions D
4 April — 1 June 2024
Opening 04 April 2024, 18:00
Mennour, 6 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris 6
Daniel Buren - MAC VAL - © Mennour
Daniel Buren, Jean Degottex, Gina Pane, Martial Raysse, Judit Reigl, L’œil vérité
13 May 2023 — 22 September 2024
MAC VAL – Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
Teasing - © Mennour
Group show, Teasing
7 December 2023 — 23 February 2024
Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6
Judit Reigl - West Bund Museum - © Mennour
Jean Degottex, Judit Reigl, Painting the Essential — Surrealism and the East
29 April — 24 September 2023
West Bund Museum, Shanghai
Jean Degottex, François Morellet & Judit Reigl - Fondation Maeght - © Mennour
Jean Degottex, François Morellet, Judit Reigl, Au cœur de l’abstraction, Collection de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
2 July — 20 November 2022
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence
Judit Reigl - Museum Barberini - © Mennour
Jean Degottex, Judit Reigl, The Shape of Freedom. International Abstraction after 1945
4 June — 25 September 2022
Museum Barberini, Potsdam
Jean Degottex & Judit Reigl - Abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue - © Mennour
Jean Degottex, Judit Reigl, Réouverture de l’Abbaye
29 June — 31 August 2022
Abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue
Jean Degottex - Tate Modern - © Mennour
Jean Degottex, Surrealism Beyond Borders
24 February — 29 August 2022
Tate Modern, London
À la ligne - © Mennour
Jean Degottex, À la ligne
8 June — 23 July 2022
Opening 08 June 2022, 18:00
Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6
Jean Degottex - Le SHED - © Mennour
Jean Degottex, PAINT PAINTING PAINTER
14 May — 17 July 2022
Le SHED, Notre-Dame de Bondeville
TEFAF New York - © Mennour
Jean Degottex, TEFAF New York
6 — 10 May 2022
Park Avenue Armory, New York
Jours blancs - © Mennour
Group show, Jours blancs
18 October 2021 — 9 February 2022
Opening 18 October 2021, 18:00
Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6
Mennour, 28 avenue Matignon, Paris 8

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