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.

His biography More on Wikipedia

Exhibitions

Date Location & description

Until 09/18/2023

Musée de la Résistance de Limoges

7 rue Neuve Saint-Etienne
87000 Limoges

“Des commandos Kieffer à la peinture expressionniste”

Permanent exhibition

Mémorial Pegasus
Avenue du Major Howard
14860 Ranville

To exhibit Guy de Montlaur's paintings: contact us.

Passed exhibitions

Pegasus before landing
Pegasus before landing
huile, 81cm × 65cm
Fontainebleau, 1956

Paintings selection

Oranges and bananas (Oranges et bananes)
Oranges and bananas (Oranges et bananes)
54 cm × 65 cm
Paris
Railway (Chemin de fer)
Railway (Chemin de fer)
100 cm × 65 cm
Nice 1950
Untitled (Sans titre)
Untitled (Sans titre)
65 cm × 100 cm
Fontainebleau 1950
Clockwork
Clockwork
146 cm × 114 cm
Fontainebleau 1953

More paintings

Virtual exhibit

Ascendance à la nuit
Ascendance à la nuit
Oil on canvas, 81 cm x 54 cm
Paris, December 1959

Ascendance à la nuit

(Ascendance at night)

In 1959 the painter begins his lyrical period. Shapes are dynamic, highly contrasted colors are full of movement and loaded with painful memories.

See the virtual exhibit

Last Blog post

7 et 8 juin Amfreville

Dans la matinée du 7 juin, les hommes s’enterrent davantage et aménagent les trous individuels qu’ils agrandissent. Ils creusent des couloirs reliant les trous, fabriquent des toits qui sont recouverts de touffes d’herbes arrachées dans les environs.

A 16 h 00 le même jour, 4 chars allemands, dont un Mark VI, arrivent de Bréville. Ils sont arrêtés par quelques Sherman au moment où ils vont rentrer dans Amfreville, l’un d’eux brûle, et les 3 autres (dont le Mark VI) font inverseur.

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