Salon "Comparaisons"
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Salon Comparaisons was founded in 1954 by Andrée Bordeaux Le Pecq and Lilas-Bug surrounded by a team of painters and sculptors. Salon "Comparaison" had the goal of promoting close relationship between figurative and abstract artists, and also between french and foreign artists, chiefly Japanese.
The device of Salon "Comparaison" was this sentence of "Paul Valéry": "Let us enrich one another with our mutual differences" (enrichissons-nous de nos différences mutuelles).
The organisation of the Salon "Comparaison" was the following: each member of the committee was also a group chief: he had to invite some fifteen other artists of his own trend.
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[edit] Foundators
The first team of foundators-organizors around Andrée Bordeaux Le Pecq was composed with Rodolphe Caillaux, Robert G. Schmidt, François Baboulet, André Sablé([1]), Braig, Jean-Pierre Alaux, Daniel du Janerand, Maurice Boitel, (Site dedicated to Maurice Boitel's work), Henri Cadiou, Bernard Mougin, Isidor Isou, Georges Delplanque, Jean Feugereux([2]).
Andrée Bordeaux Le Pecq developed the international relationship of the Salon "Comparaisons", chiefly with Mexico and Japan and founded the "Prix Air-France" (Air-France award) of Mexico, which was given in 1958 to the painter Jansem.
[edit] Notable others exhibitors
Between the first exhibitors in Salon "Comparaisons", in addition to the organizors, can be noted for the tenth anniversary of the Salon:
François Desnoyer, Jean Carzou, Louis Berthommé Saint-André, Roger Montané,
Jean Joyet, Gaston Sébire, Bardone, Louis Vuillermoz, Robert Savary, Pollet, Michel Henry, Génis,
Pierre-Henry (Site dedicated to Pierre-Henry's work), Michel Ciry, Paul Collomb (Site dedicated to Paul Collomb's work) , Noë Canjura, Françoise Adnet,
Emile Sabouraud, Roger Worms, Chervin, Emil Grau-Sala,
Yvette Alde, Yves Brayer, Jean Cluseau-Lanauve, Jacques Villon, Paul Charlot, Pierre Lelong,
Serge Poliakoff, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini,
Pierre Gilou, Jean Malice, Claude Yvel,
George Rohner, Jean Eve, Roland Oudot, Aristide Caillaud,
Marcel Bouissou, Jean-Pierre Zingg, Baron-Renouard, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Christo,
Volti, Gestalder,
[edit] Location
During a long period, "Salon "Comparaisons" was annual and held in the Musée d'Art Moderne of the Trocadero in Paris, and after at the Grand Palais. It is now biennal and in 2002, the exhibition was held in Espace Auteuil (Porte d'Auteuil- Paris).
[edit] List of presidents:
-Lilas-Bug (painter),
-Andrée Bordeaux Le Pecq (until 1972), painter
-Rodolphe Caillaux, painter
-Bernard Mougin, sculptor
-Robert G. Schmidt, painter
-Paul Alexis, painter, alias Daniel Dieval, subprefect.
[edit] present exhibition
Grand Palais, avenue Winston Churchill, Paris 8e, from november the 9th 2006 to the 19th. Vernissage the 9th, from 5 pm to 11 pm.
sources: catalogues of "Comparaisons" 1964 and 2002, french annuaire administratif.
