We are delighted to return to the Grand Palais this year after its renovation and to present, at our stand and at the Réalités Nouvelles, Réalités Universelles gallery, an exhibition bringing together major figures whose works marked the artistic ferment of the post-war period. For this occasion, Serge Lemoine has honored us by retracing this period and highlighting these artists:

"As soon as 'Paris was liberated,' artistic activity flourished once again: it blossomed in galleries and Salons where artists of all generations, geographical origins, and trends flocked to the French capital. Among them, the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, founded in 1946, held a unique position and played a major role, dedicating itself exclusively to the currents of geometric abstraction, which were experiencing a period of great momentum and renewal, with Herbin as its leader.".

The Salon des Réalités Nouvelles welcomed all the new and experimental trends emerging at the time, from Zurich's concrete art, strong in its principles, to the Argentine Madí movement, rich in its flights of fancy.
This exhibition presents several artists representing different generations and backgrounds: Auguste Herbin, who came from Fauvism, a pioneer of Cubism, and a friend of Picasso at the Bateau-Lavoir; Alberto Magnelli and Félix Del Marle, active before 1914 and close to Futurism; Jean Gorin, the first French disciple of Mondrian and one of the first painters to turn to relief; Jean Leppien, who was Kandinsky's student at the Bauhaus; and Georges Folmer, a Cubist of the interwar period who became an abstract painter.

Joining this first group were artists belonging to the new generations, those who began their work after the Liberation and who would be particularly influenced by the art of Auguste Herbin: a Frenchman, Jean Dewasne, and a Hungarian painter, Victor Vasarely, a student at Mühely, the Bauhaus of Budapest, who settled in France as a graphic designer and advertising professional and who would become the leader of the group. Each artist is thus represented by a work characteristic of their production from the 1950s and 60s, which demonstrates great variety and reveals not a style, but rather a shared vision of new realities

Serge Lemoine 2025