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Jacques Lagrange

Jacques Lagrange (1917 - 1995) was active/lived in New York / France.  Jacques Lagrange is known for Figure, genre, interior and still life painting, engraving, screenwriter.

Jacques Lagrange
(1917-1995)

The critic Waldemar George considered Lagrange as comparable only to Matisse in his magical use of colour. In 1954 Lagrange  had set up a studio near the Botanical gardens at Antibes, and during this period his use of colour became  furthermore intensified, gaining the artist a reputation as the “architect  of light”, and receiving international  acclaim, his work having already  been acquired by several modern art museums.

Jacques Lagrange had developed his passion for painting at an early age, the son of an architect, and nephew of a painter. In 1933 he attended the École Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs*, and the following year transferred to the École des Beaux Arts*, where he studied under Fernand Sabate and Lucien Penar. Working from the attic in his family home which Lagrange had converted into a studio, he exhibited his first works in 1936 at the Salon des Tuileries*. In 1938 he won the painting priz   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3820 characters.]  Artist bio

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