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The Salon de Mai (the '' May Salon'') is a group of French artists which formed in a café on the Rue Dauphine in
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.Ferrier, Jean-Louis. (Ed.) (1999) ''Art of the 20th Century''. Paris: Chene-Hachette, p. 431. In 1943, the Salon de Mai was founded as an Association (declared in 1944) in opposition to
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. It founder members were the art critic Gaston Diehl and the painters, sculptors and engravers
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, Lucien Coutaud, Robert Couturier, Jacques Despierre (who suggested naming the salon after the month in which its first meetings were held), Marcel Gili, Léon Gischia,
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Jean Le Moal Jean Le Moal (30 October 1909 – 16 March 2007) was a French painter of the new Paris school, designer of stained glass windows, and one of the founder members of the Salon de Mai. Biography Jean Le Moal enrolled at the "Ecole des Beaux-Ar ...
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Alfred Manessier Alfred Manessier (5 December 1911, Saint-Ouen – 1 August 1993, Orléans) was a non-figurative French painter, stained glass artist, and tapestry designer, part of the new School of Paris and the Salon de Mai. Biography Manessier was born am ...
, André Marchand, Edouard Pignon,
Gustave Singier Gustave Singier (11 February 1909, in Warneton – 5 May 1984, in Paris) was a Belgian abstract art, non-figurative painter active in France as part of the new Paris School of Lyrical Abstraction and the Salon de Mai. Early life He spent his c ...
, Claude Venard and Roger Vieillard, who together formed it direction committee. Several of them (Coutaud, Gischia, Le Moal, Manessier, Marchand, ORAZI, Pignon, Singier) participated in the 1941 exhibition . Under its president Gaston Diehl the first Salon de Mai exhibition took place in the art galerie "Pierre Maurs" (3, avenue Matignon) from 29 May to 29 June 1945. Its honorary committee was made up of
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. The catalogue of this first Salon had a preface by Gaston Diehl, with texts by René Bertelé and André Rolland de Renéville, poems by
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and Guillevic. Even after the liberation of Paris, and subsequently of France, logistical problems in the city remained serious and the lack of public spaces was a limitation. Consequently, in 1946 the ''Salon de Mai'' was organized on the fourth floor of the famous department store "Galeries Lafayettes", in 1947 it was held at the art gallery "Arts" (140, Faubourg Saint-Honoré), in 1948 at the art gallery Lambert-Marie (22, Place Vendôme). Only in 1949 the ''Salon de Mai'' was organized in the large rooms of the "Palais de New-York" (Avenue du Président Wilson), which then hosted it until 1954. In the following years, until 1968, it was held at the "Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris". From 1969 onwards, the ''Salon de Mai'' had to deal with major logistical problems, so its exhibition often changed address. The 64th and last ''Salon de Mai'' took place from 6 to 11 May 2014 at the "Espace Commines" (17, rue Commines). Gaston Diehl has been the Founder - President of the ''Salon de Mai'' until his death, in 1997.


See also

*
Salón de Mayo The Salón de Mayo (May Salon) was an art exhibition held in Havana, Cuba, in July 1967. It took its name from the Salon de Mai, an artists collective founded during the Nazi occupation of France. It was organized by Carlos Franqui with the assist ...
, Havana, 1967


References and sources

;References ;Sources *Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, ''Histoire de l'art, Paris 1940-1944, Ordre national, Traditions et Modernités'', preface by Michel Winock, Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, 1986, . *Gaston Diehl, ''La Peinture en France dans les années noires, 1935-1945'', Z'éditions, Nice, 1999.


External links


Salon de Mai - official site.
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