Venice The Gondoliers Signed Dated 1959 Oil On Canvas By Jean Monneret 1922-2025 33 Cm X 24 Cm

Biography Jean Monneret: Jean Monneret, born November 27, 1922 in Chalon-sur-Saône and died May 19, 2025 in Levallois-Perret, is a French painter, lithographer and sculptor. He is attached to the post-war School of Paris, known as the New School of Paris Jean Monneret, born November 27, 1922 in Chalon-sur-Saône, is the son of a father who was a hotel cook who followed his brother in his business projects in Monte Carlo. He produced his first watercolors in 1933. After attending the Lille School of Fine Arts, he joined the Jean Dupas studio at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris from 1944 to 1949. At the same time, he successfully passed the competitive examination for teaching visual arts in high schools. A teacher, then director of the Montmartre course (1960-1975), he became a professor of visual arts and art history at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art in Paris (1974-1988); he maintained the study of drawing in the various positions he held. His painting, figurative, with a graphic style with expressive black contours at a certain time, is reminiscent of the style of Bernard Buffet, his junior by six years. Present in most of the painting Salons, and representative of the spirit of freedom of painters, he was regularly elected president of the Salon des indépendants between 1977 and 2001. He is the founding president of the federation of the historic Salons of the Grand Palais. In 1997, the Salon des Indépendants, held at the Espace Eiffel-Branly, offered a retrospective of the painter with around 60 works, from 1943 to 1997. An exhibition was organized by André Liatard in Aix-les-Bains at the Faure Museum in September 2014. His painter friends included Jean Carzou, Jean-Pierre Alaux, Pierre-Henry, Michel Henry, Jean Joyet, Geoffroy Dauvergne and Maurice Boitel. Jean Monneret died on May 19, 2025 at the age of 102.