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Philippe Derome (born 18 February 1937 in
''Still Life with Mackerel and Red Mullet'' (1954)
*''Riot'' (1963)
*''Selma marche'' (1968)
*''Black head'' (1971)
*''Le Flore'(1973)
*''Jusqu'à quand ?'' (1974)
*''Skieurs'' (1976)
*''Harmony'' (1987)
*''Tank rouge'' (1994)
*''AIDS, hotel Bailey, NY'' (1997)Bailey House website
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Philippe Derome : ''Black paints''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Derome, Philippe 1937 births Living people Painters from Paris 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters 21st-century French painters 21st-century French male artists
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
) is a French figurative painter.
Biography
Philippe Derome grew up inBoulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the Parisian area, located from its Kilometre zero, centre. It is a Subprefectures in ...
and in Villeurbanne
Villeurbanne (; frp, Velorbana) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.
It is situated northeast of Lyon, with which it forms the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France after tha ...
. In 1956 he settled in Paris where he studied for two years with Paul Colin. From 1960 to 1970 he was privileged enough to be part of the sophisticated and artistic circles of Paris. In Paris, he met black American students and writers such as James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer. He garnered acclaim across various media, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, '' Go Tell It on the Mountain'', was published in 1953; de ...
. Baldwin fed his interest on issues related to black American identity. Later in the 1980s he also painted themes about the black people in France. The staggered representation of recreation is another dominant theme seen in Derome's work.
Themes
His main subjects are : *The leisure civilisation : Ski, beaches scenes, nights clubsCouteau-Bégarie auctions - Collection Raymond Subes - 2008, CollectionGeorges Geffroy
Georges Geffroy (1903–1971) was a post-war French interior designer.
Biography
"An eighteenth-century gentleman, a figure from another era, one of a breed of decorators that is extinct today,” remembers couturier Hubert de Givenchy;
Geffroy wa ...
, Paris - Collection Roger Hauert - David Rockefeller NY
* Négritude, Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional Racial segregation in the United States, racial segregation, Racial discrimination ...
, Selma to Montgomery marches
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the ...
and later black people in France.Galerie Annick Gendron
Annick Gendron was a French abstract painter, (1939 Châtin, Nièvre - 22 October 2008 Saint-Cloud).
Art
In the 1970s Gendron’s innovative way of using and manipulating industrial material and tools as plastic, glass, hydraulics press an ...
, Paris- 1973-1980Correspondence with Dominique de Ménil
Dominique de Menil (née Schlumberger; March 23, 1908 – December 31, 1997) was a France, French-United States, American collection (museum), art collector, philanthropy, philanthropist, founder of the Menil Collection and an heiress to the Schl ...
, Menil Archives, The Menil Collection, Houston
* Vanitas
*WarAction Art contemporary art show
Techniques
*Oils and acrylics on canvas, gouaches on paper. *Objects and painted furnitures.Collection Charles Sévigny - Yves Vidal Christie's auction house 2009 Suite de "MICROMISS ILES" No. 12 *Collages : books of photograpics assemblies or colors papers silhouette cut and stuck as artworkArtworks
*''Still Life with Mackerel and Red Mullet'' (1954)
*''Riot'' (1963)
*''Selma marche'' (1968)
*''Black head'' (1971)
*''Le Flore'(1973)
*''Jusqu'à quand ?'' (1974)
*''Skieurs'' (1976)
*''Harmony'' (1987)
*''Tank rouge'' (1994)
*''AIDS, hotel Bailey, NY'' (1997)Bailey House website/ref>
Shows
*1959 : Galerie Luc Burnap. Saint-Tropez. France *1960 : Luc Burnap Gallery. New York. USA *1967 : Biennale du Grand Palais, Paris (« Ph. Derome peint une conversation au Flore à la manière de Jean-Luc Godart », J. Warnod, le Figaro *1968 : Salon de Mai «A very hard-working young painter who knows what he wants and worries very little about –isms and the théories and ideas of others. » Edouard Roditi, NY Diplomat *1973 - 1980 : GalerieAnnick Gendron
Annick Gendron was a French abstract painter, (1939 Châtin, Nièvre - 22 October 2008 Saint-Cloud).
Art
In the 1970s Gendron’s innovative way of using and manipulating industrial material and tools as plastic, glass, hydraulics press an ...
Paris
*1974 : Collection Jean Pierre Brasseur-Gregor. Munich (with a documentary realized by Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement.
Fassbinder's main ...
)
*1978 : Marbella Club. Marbella
Notes and references
External links
Philippe Derome : ''Black paints''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Derome, Philippe 1937 births Living people Painters from Paris 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters 21st-century French painters 21st-century French male artists