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In Moser's art there is a certain element of Pop Art, Christopher Fremantle, of British origin (who had
but from which, he told me, he wished to free himself. lived for several years in New York) is holding his first
In his powerful composition, entitled La Marie, there one-man show at the Galerie Valerie Schmidt. I
is both a figurative and non-figurative form of admire him for his hiding and living and working quietly
expression but where a third dimension also exists. back in Paris for several years, never wishing to ask
As I have said, Moser has had a great admiration for any fellow artist or critic what they thought of his efforts.
the work of Bissiere. This brilliant artist died recently, Finally he has come forward to exhibit what he has been
at the age of seventy-seven. In homage to him, the last struggling to express in silence. He is principally
picture he painted. significantly entitled Au Crepescule, inspired by the work of Turner. Matisse and Picasso.
was also exhibited at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher. His art is both figurative and non-figurative and his
At Jacques Desbriete, a new gallery, on the Left technique is mainly palette-knife painting Some of his
Bank, a talented young artist, of twenty-seven canvases are reminiscent of those of de Stael but more
years of age, named Michel Henricot, is exhibiting fragile and translucent in their subtle colour harmonies
strange, quasi-surrealist paintings which remind one with distinct plastic tonal values.
somewhat of the work of Max Ernst and his Germanic At another newly opened gallery on the Left Bank­
expressionism. Henricot's painting is both smooth and the Galerie Anne Colin-Henri Maik, a Naive painter
metallic. His subJect matter is mostly inspired by the (the work of Les Peintres de Dimanche are now much
unique collection of Egyptian mummies in the Museum in demand following the crisis in abstract expressionism
in Turin. In a certain sense, he is haunted by the larva since 1963). exhibits attractive, decorative com­
of the underworld, he told me. I consider Henricot to positions which may best be described as colourful
be a young artist of great promise. enlarged Indian and Persian miniatures. ■
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