Untitled by Jean Michel Atlan was created in 1958. The painting is in Private Collection. The size of the work is 73 x 116 cm and is made as an oil on canvas.
About the Artist: French artist Jean Michel Atlan (1913 – 1960) was born in Constantine, French Algeria. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He was then active on the far left Trotskyist and anti-colonialist. He was a philosophy teacher at the Lycée de Laval in 1938-1939, then, at the start of the 1939 academic year, at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris. In mid-November 1940, he was stripped of the civil service by the new rector of the Paris Academy, Jérôme Carcopino, who zealously applied the “status of Jews”, although he had no decree. of application.
In 1946, Atlan met Asger Jorn, then joined the CoBrA movement and approached abstraction. That same year, 1946, Maeght published the book Description d’un Combat by Franz Kafka, the black lithographs of which were produced by Atlan.
In 1951, he participated in the Exposition Internationale d’Art Expérimental in Liège, and from 1953, his work gained success in Japan. He exhibited in Israel in 1953 and Yugoslavia in 1954. He also participated in the São Paulo Biennial in 1955 and 1957.
Atlan continued to exhibit his work widely, including in the Nouvelle École de Paris, Tokyo, and various galleries in Paris and beyond. He held solo exhibitions in 1957 at Galerie Dupont in Lille, France, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, and Musée Picasso-Antibes in Antibes, France. In 1958, he exhibited at the Galleria Naviglio in Milan, Italy, and had a travelling exhibition in Germany.
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