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Marcel Dumont and the highlights & pictures.

Marcel Dumont

1958 - Exhibition to the Alphonse Chave Gallery in St Paul de Vence

Marcel Dumont (center) with Jean cocteau (right) & Dominique Ponchardier (left)

Exhibition in Lyon

Marcel Dumont (left) with the famous french philosopher André Glucksmann (center)

In his workshop

With the french poet Jean-Pierre Geay (left)

• 1921 – Birth in Douai – He started painting & drawing at the age of 14.

• 1940-1947 – He studied Philosophy in Lyon & Paris

• 1948 - Became Professor of Philosophy while continuing painting

• 1954 - First Exhibition at the Galerie Grange in Lyon – Portraits – Great compositions with Fusain : Portraits - Landscapes

• 1957 - Second exhibition at the Galerie Grange in Lyon- Meeting with Alphonse Chave, famous gallerist & contemporary Art collector

• 1958 - Exhibition at the Galerie Chave in Vence – Meeting with Jean Cocteau. Great figurative compositions. Portraits and landscapes. Meeting with the Philosopher Noël Mouloud who became his friend..

• 1960 - Another Exhibition at the Galerie Grange in Lyon / Assembly pictures

• 1960-1961 - Exhibition at the Galerie La Jeune Parque à Lyon. Period of fingerprints, monotypes & gestural painting.

• 1962 - Important Exhibition with wax and Indian ink. Collective Exhibitions in Lyon & Paris.Film Directing by Pierre Hervo in Oyonnax . Illustrating the poems of Jean Perol.

• 1963 - .Appointed Professor in Salon -de -Provence. He settled in the Alpilles and worked on rocks, hills and trees of the Alpilles. Important series of drawings, wash drawings, watercolors , pastels ...on the theme of the Alpilles

• 1965-1969 - Travelled in Spain & Italy. He settled in Aix-en-Provence.

• 1970 - He gave up teaching following a car accident.

• 1971-Retrospective at the Hotel Estrine in St Remy de Provence « 10 years of paintings 1959-1969 » He met JP Geay

• 1972 / 1973 - Series of great watercolors & gouaches

• 1974 - Great Exhibition at the Cultural Centre of Privas. JP Geay wrote a book about him. New series of assembly pictures & series of pen-and-ink drawings. Rocks & Alpilles.

• 1975 - Exhibition being held under the patronage of Rene Char at the Tourism Office “Isle sur la Sorgue » - Inside of an apricot tree . First drawings about the Vercors – Theme of the forrest

• 1978 - Exhibition at the Galerie Claude Aubry in Paris - Theme of the inside of Apricot trees – Meeting with Jean Bazaine

• 1979/1980 - Exhibition in St Remy de Provence

• 1981- He composed with the help of J-P Geay a bibliophily book intitled : hills and orchards of Alpilles

• 1982 - Exhibition at the Galerie Claude Aubry in Paris : « 10 years of Painting in the Alpilles «

• 1983 - Another Exhibition at the Galerie Claude Aubry in paris - Meeting with François Cheng with whom he wrote two books of bibliophily. Meeting of P.A.Benoit & JL Meunnier with whom he wrote quite of few bibliophily books.And finally,Meeting with René Char.

• 1983/1985 - Publication of " When the earth is an orchard "by Jean - Pierre Geay – He worked in his house in Provence called “Mas des Renards” – mixed and multiple technnique- Wax, Indian ink, gouacheon the theme of “Trees and Rocks”

• 1985 - He composed in 3 months 148 drawings for the " Book of my indoor gardens "- Major Book in 5 parts.

• 1986 - Exhibition at Geneviève Goubains’ in Salon de Provence watercolours, gouaches & acryliques « Icon landscapes »

• 1988 /1989 - Exhibition at « Isle sur Sorgue » at Galerie Ceruse. Black and white drawings inspired by the forrest in Vercors.

• 1998 - Death of Marcel Dumont

• 2002 - Retrospective / Exhibition of Marcel Dumont Artworks in Avignon & Chateaurenand.