Jean-michel Atlan (1913-1960) - Pastel

Pastel on strong cardboard signed lower right Jean Michel ATLAN (1913-1960) Work titled "Composition" and dated 1953 Framed under glass, black box Dimensions HC: 23.5 x 41 cm / Dimensions AC: 40 x 47 cm Certificate of authenticity of the Marechaud Laurentin cabinet In perfect condition Jean-Michel Atlan, born January 23, 1913 in Constantine, died February 12, 1960 in Paris, was a French painter. Atlan, of Judeo-Berber origin, left Algeria for Paris in 1930, where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. In 1941, he began to paint, then he was arrested in 1942, both for his resistance activism and because he was Jewish. Imprisoned, he escaped the extermination camps. He now devoted himself to painting and exhibited in 1944 at the Salon des Surindépendants in an expressionist style. In 1946 Atlan met Asger Jorn then joined the CoBrA movement: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam (1948-1951) and approached abstraction. He suffered a haemorrhage in 1959 during an exhibition in London and died on February 12, 1960 .