Monory exhibition in New York

Yoyo Maeght and the Richard Taittinger Gallery are pleased to present the first Jacques Monory’s exhibition in New York

To celebrate Jacques Monory, who is newly represented by his gallery, Richard Taittinger is thrilled to present the French artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States.

The show presents a selection of Monory’s paintings from the last four decades. The exhibition is already a huge success and promises to be one of the major events of the New York season.

Throughout his prolific career, Monory has been celebrated as a pioneer of the 1960’s French movement, Narrative Figuration. His work, along with the movement, was developed out of an opposition to the informal painting that typified the era. Not to be mistaken for Pop Art, Monory has said : “What has developed in France has moved away from American Pop Art, we have expressed a critical narrative of society while the Americans have almost always, in my opinion, embraced their system.”

Jacques Monory (b. 1924) is a French painter and filmmaker

In 2008, Jacques Monory was highlighted in the retrospective exhibition “Figuration Narrative”, at the Grand Palais in Paris and had a solo exhibition at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.

In 2015, a retrospective of his work took place at the Helene & Edouard Leclerc Fund for Culture in Landerneau, France.

Monory’s works are included in the permanent collections of :

• Pompidou Center, Paris, France
• Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
• Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
• Museum of Modern Art, Fukoka, Japan
• Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
• National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana Cuba
• Museum-Gallery of Seoul, South Korea
• Museum of Solidarity Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chili
• Museum Colec??o Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
• Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany

Richard Taittinger Gallery

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