XXth Cent Painter
About Guy de Montlaur
I want to shout: “Just look! Look at the mystery! It is piercing your eyes.”
And no one sees it. Nobody but myself. People see colours, shadows, lights, forms. They see (what do I know?) the canvas, the stretcher nails. And I don’t understand they can’t guess all the distress here, under their eyes, as it was during the war: the clamour, death, love, treachery; the lies and the fear. And still more that I cannot say, but I know how to do it.
Yes I say: I know how to do it.
Paintings selection
Oranges et bananes
54 cm × 65 cmParis
Chemin de fer
100 cm × 65 cmNice 1950
Sans titre
65 cm × 100 cmFontainebleau 1950
Clockwork
146 cm × 114 cmFontainebleau 1953
Hommage à Kandinsky
195 cm × 114 cmNice
L’espoir a fui
92.5 cm × 60 cmParis 1960
La promesse des fleurs
73 cm × 92 cmFranval
Souvenir d’Issenheim
60 cm × 92 cmParis, rue de Varenne
Il dort
80.5 cm × 65 cmParis 1969
Le rêve de Berganza
54.5 cm × 81 cmParis 1972
Souvenir normand
46 cm × 55 cm1972
Peinture à l’usage des enfants
92 cm × 60 cmParis 1977
Exhibits
| Date | Location & description |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Paris, IESA arts&culture “Guy de Montlaur (1918-1977) It was a strange war!” April 1st to 5th, 2019, Campus de l’Innovation Culturelle, 1 cité Griset, 75011 Paris. The exhibition is held during the conference “ Art and War in the history of avant-garde (1909-2019)” organized by IESA arts&culture (Paris) and Paris8 University, “Literature, Histories, Esthetics” |
| 2019 | New Orleans, LA, USA, The National WWII Museum “The Art of Guy de Montlaur – In Memory of What I cannot Say” March 15 to October 19, 2019, Louisiana Memorial Pavilion In Memory of the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings |
| 2018 | Mémorial Pegasus Museum (Ranville, Calvados) Permanent exhibit of the painting « Pegasus before landing » |
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Last Blog post
La montre
Publié le 29/01/2019 par Michael de Montlaur — Guerre
Après la guerre, Guy de Montlaur a toujours porté cette montre. Une Angélus.
La Montre
Il nous disait qu’elle avait appartenu au chef du camp de concentration de Ravensbrück. Jacqueline Péry, qui y avait été déportée en 1944 venait parfois à la maison et nous racontait ce qui se passait dans ce camp de concentration.