04 : ABOUT THE ARTIST
JEAN LEGROSJean Legros, painter born in 1917 in Paris, died in 1981 in Malakoff, was also a graduate of philosophy and psychology.
"I like traditional painting, but I don’t get your modern painting at all!"
"Then you clearly don’t get traditional art at all, either. Because traditional painting only exists and comes to life through modern painting."
Extract from one of 43 notebooks which the painter Jean Legros called "Mon bréviaire"
MUSEUM & PUBLIC COLLECTION
• National Fund for Contemporary Art
Paris, France
• Museum of Fine Arts
Besançon, France
• Museum of Modern Art
Saint-Etienne, France
• Regional Fund for Contemporary Art
Alsace, France
• Tavet-Delacour Museum
Pontoise, France
• National library
Paris, France
• Museum of Art and History
Cholet, France
• Museum of Art and History
Belfort, France
• Museum of Grenoble
France
