HENRI-GEORGES ADAM* (Paris 1904 - 1967 Perros-Guirec)

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  HENRI-GEORGES ADAM* (Paris 1904 - 1967 Perros-Guirec)
  The dead cat, 1927
  ink and watercolor/paper, 25,7 x 21,5 cm
  signed Adam, dated 27
  entitled "le chat mort"
  
  ESTIMATE °€ 2000 - 4000
  STARTING PRICE °€ 2000
  
  The French professor, painter, graphic artist, sculptor and tapestry designer Henri-Georges Adam is generally attributed to the École de Paris. From 1926 he worked as a drawing teacher for the city of Paris. He soon began making satirical drawings and political caricatures. Waldemar George compared his cynical mocking spirit to that of Georges Rouault. In the 1930s, Adam created copper engravings and etchings. In an expressionistic series of copper engravings he dealt with the war, especially the Spanish Civil War. Adam joined the "Association des Écrivains at Artistes Révolutionnaires" (AEAR: Henri Barbusse, Jean Bernier, Andre Breton - until 1933, Claude Cahun/Lucy Schwob, Max Ernst, Maurice Estève, André Gide, Jean Giono, Francis Jourdain, Max Lingner, Alfred Menassier, Marcel Moore/Zusanne Malherbe, Léon Moussinac, Charlotte Perriand, Édouard Pignon, Arpadszenes, Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Charles Vildrac). He moved in the circles of surrealist artists such as André Breton, Louis Aragon and Paul Éluard and took part in one with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger, Marc Chagall, Chaïm Soutine, Ossip Zadkine, Roger Bissière and Édouard Pignon Participated in a group exhibition at the Théâtre de l'Alhambra. In 1942 Adam began sculpting. In 1943 he was one of the founders of the Salon de Mai together with Gaston Diehl, Léon Gischia, Jean Le Moal, Alfred Manessier, Edouard Pignon and Gustave Singier; He created decorations, costumes, masks and two statues measuring four meters high for a performance of “Les Mouches” by Jean-Paul Sartre. Adam was friends with Pablo Picasso, who made his workshop available to him. In 1947, Adam began creating black and white tapestries, for which he developed his own technique. In 1952, the first retrospective of his entire work took place in Paris. Another followed in 1955 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Adam decorated the French Embassy in Washington with tapestries, worked for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and for Air France in New York. In the 1960s he created a number of monumental sculptures for public spaces. After a monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner followed “Le Signal”, in the forecourt of the Le Havre Museum. Adam became professor of engraving and then senior professor of the sculpture workshop at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 1959 he was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel. Another retrospective took place in 1966 at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.
  
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