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Monory et la nuit américaine : de la photographie à la peinture

JEAN-PAUL GAVARD-PERRET | FEBRUARY 8, 2018 Evocative of the daily or murderous violence of the world, Jacques Monory’s blue (but sometimes pink) works have, for 40 years, been a faithful reproduction of reality – particularly through traditional and stereotypical images…

Monory and the American night: From photography to painting

  Monory and the American night: From photography to painting   JEAN-PAUL GAVARD-PERRET  |  FEBRUARY 8, 2018   Evocative of the world’s deadly or quotidian violence, Jacques Monory’s blue (and sometimes pink) paintings have, for the past 40 years, been…

Jacques Monory

Jacques Monory 12 Jan — 23 Feb 2018 at the Richard Taittinger Gallery in New York, United States 27 JANUARY 2018     Jacques Monory’s Death Valley nº4. Courtesy of Richard Taittinger Gallery   To celebrate Jacques Monory, who is newly represented…

The Distant Blue of Jacques Monory

The Distant Blue of Jacques Monory   In Landerneau, in Britanny (France), Pascale Le Thorel chose more than one hundred and fifty works by the painter-filmmaker Jacques Monory (born in 1924). His paintings, films, and writings suggest fictitious events of…

Jacques Monory: Painter of Blue Series

February 2015 “Jacques Monory: Painter of  Blue Series” Translated from Philippe Piguet’s article for L’œil   Forever with a hat, black sunglasses on the tip of his nose, and a leather vest, the most gentlemen of contemporary artists, Jacques Monory…

The Monory Blue

January 30th, 2015 The Monory Blue The French painter works on the stereotypes and banality of everyday life. At 90 years old, this is the first retrospective devoted to him.   Jacques Villon, Marcel Duchamp’s brother, is thought to have…

Le Monde-Jacques Monory, Set Designer of a Figurative Crime

August 2004 Jacques Monory, set designer of a figurative crime Translated from Geneviève Breerette’s article for Le Monde.   Having the allure of an elegant Hollywood gangster, the artist Jacques Monory presents a selection of works at the Salomon Foundation,…