Myriam Provost

Myriam Prévot directs, with Gildo Caputo, the Galerie of France of 1951 until its suicide in 1977.

Biography

Presented to Rene Drouin by Pierre Seghers, Myriam Prévot works of 1945 to 1947 at Gildo Caputo with the gallery Drouin (Place Vendôme), where it becomes acquainted in particular with Moal, Manessier, Singier. In 1947 it follows Caputo when it opens the gallery Billiet-Caputo (Rue Boétie).

At the end of 1950 Myriam Provost and Gildo Caputo take again the direction of the Gallery of France (Rue of the Suburb Saint-Honore), open in 1942 by Paul Martin. They join together in " 1951" presences; , first exposure presented in January 1951, Boron, Dominguez, Estève, Gischia, Jacques Lagrange, Lapicque, Moal, Manessier, Pinion, Prassinos, Singier, Relieve, Tailleux and Tal Coat.

Presenting the biggest part of the painters of the not figuration and Lyric abstraction, Myriam Provost and Gildo Caputo make in the years 1950 and 1960 of the Gallery of France one of the most important Parisian art galleries. " The Gallery of France was then a true institution, it dominated the international artistic life and had become the obligatory place of exposure of any artist coming from the whole world which sought the dedication of Paris, for some time still capital world of Article international Grands Prix for its artists, exposures overall muséales (the Museum of Modern art, of the Town of Paris had become a true branch of the gallery), waiting lists for the collectionneurs" , writing Jean-Robert Arnaud (" Cimaise" , 1990, p. 7).

To the length of almost three decades Myriam Provost, with Caputo, will have in particular presented exposures of:

Pierre Alechinsky (1962, 1963,1966,1968,1971,1973,1977)
AsEva Bergman (1958, 1962,1968,1977)
Christian Dotremont (1971, 1975)
Hans Hartung (1956, 1958,1961,1962,1964,1966,1969,1971,1974,1977)
Jean Moal (1956, 1959,1974)
Alfred Manessier (1952, 1956,1958,1959,1966,1970,1975)
Maryan (1958, 1960,1965,1974)
Zoran Music (1953, 1956,1958,1960,1964,1967,1970)
Edouard Pinion (1952, 1953,1955,1958,1960,1962,1968,1970,1973,1976)
Serge Poliakoff (1964, 1973,1977)
Mario Prassinos (1953, 1955,1957,1960,1964,1966,1972,1976)
Gustave Singier (1952, 1955,1957,1959,1961,1966,1967,1969,1972)
Pierre Soulages (1956, 1960,1963,1967,1972,1974,1977)
Zao Wou-Ki (1957, 1960,1963,1967,1970,1972,1975),

but also works of Oscar Dominguez (1951), Reynold Arnould (1951, 1954), Victor Brauner (1952), Felix Labisse (1952, 1957), Victor Brauner (1952), Jacques Lagrange (1953), Leon Gischia (1954), Marta Colvin (1967).

Testimony

"Small of size, not pretty but attracting, sharp and effective, it had the charm of the intelligence with, in the glance, a merry flame and in the smile, like a reflection of its pleasure of living. A long time it kept them, until the moment when the circumstances of the life led it to despair. It was proud and voluntary, but optimistic and generous. (...) Always sincere, its life was a swirl of enthusiasms which were erased the ones the others. Sometimes the projects which it had seemed to give up reappeared. Emerged of the bottom of itself, it stuck to it suddenly with a great rigor. (...) It had devoted to the Gallery the every day of its life. With passion and without respite, it had not ceased fighting to defend in the world the artists whom it loved. It had gained there honors, it left its existence." there;

Raimond Herbet, Memories , National museum of Modern art, Paris; " Cimaise" , n° 205, Paris, April-May 1990 (p. 27); the Sixties with the Gallery of France, the time of Myriam Provost and Gildo Caputo , Donation Mario Prassinos, Vault Our-Lady-of-Pity, Saint-Rémy-of-Provence, 1993 (p. II).

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