HENRI ANDRE MARTIN, 1918 – 2004 (b. Lyon, France)

When Henri-Andre Martin first began painting in France, he was exposed to the work of the contemporary Modernist Masters, Picasso, Matisse – whose work influenced his own. Post-Impressionism, one of the most important movements in painting of the 20th Century, is a style that is evidence in the work of Martin. This movement urged artists to develop a different kind of brushstroke, namely the thick and unblended brushstroke which gives the viewer an impression of an image from a distance and layered, distinct brushstrokes from up close.

Martin’s first solo exhibition was in the Galerie Chardin in Paris where he showed originality and style of his own.

COLLECTIONS:
City of Lyon
Museum of Rodez
State: National Fund of Contemporary Art in France

AWARDS:
Maurice Utrillo Prize 1964
Medal of Honor from the Lyonnaise Society of Fine Arts

PUBLICATIONS:
“Henri-Andre Martin” Atrium, Auditorium Maurice Ravel (retrospective of work)