Jean Michel Meurice - screen print - 1978

Screen print by Jean Meurice on Arches paper from 1978, numbered 14/190 and signed in pencil. Dimensions top 65x48 cm.
Jean-Michel Meurice, from Northern France, is one of the most important representatives of the French art scene of the last fifty years. After his childhood in Lille and Béthune, he studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Luc in Tournai. In 1962 he exhibited for the first time in the Lille Gallery Groupe A. The following year, during his first group exhibition in Paris, he presented La Barnum (1963). The painting attracts the attention of Pierre Soulages, after which they become friends. In the same period, Jean-Michel Meurice made a series of short films about contemporary artists (Pierre Soulages, Zao Wou-Ki, Bram van Velde, Sonia Delaunay…). These first films mark the beginning of a long career as a television man and documentary maker. Because Jean-Michel Meurice is both a painter and a director, his work occupies a unique place in the artistic and cultural history of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.