Portrait Oil On Canvas By Jean Pierre Capron 1921 1997 Signed Dated 63 - Unframed 55x46cm

Biography Jean Pierre Capron
Jean-Pierre Capron was a French painter and lithographer of the École de Paris born in Cannes on 4 August 1921 and died in Paris 14e1 on 2 July 1997.
After studying architecture in Lausanne, Jean-Pierre Capron joined Eugène Narbonne's studio at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 1945, where he was a fellow student of Bernard Buffet, with whom he formed a lasting friendship2,3 (in 1958 he was Buffet's best man at his wedding to Annabel Schwob). Éric Mercier also mentions his attendance at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière4.
From 1970, along with Bernard Buffet, Michel de Gallard, Jean Jansem, Jean Commère and Arnaud d'Hauterives, he was one of the permanent artists at the Maurice Garnier gallery in Paris. It is located at 126, boulevard Montparnasse in the 14th arrondissement of Paris5.

René Huyghe and Jean Rudel situate Jean-Pierre Capron, along with Claude Venard, Francis Tailleux, Bernard Lorjou, Jean-Jacques Morvan and Raymond Guerrier among the artists who meet alongside Georges Rohner in their attachment to an ‘expressive realism, without necessarily adhering to the same manner. They are not so far removed from an expressionist realism, of which Belgium remains a highly representative centre, at a time when the officially socialist countries were more attached to a ‘descriptive’ realism’.

Solo exhibitions
Galerie Visconti, Paris, 1950, 1952.
Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, December 1955.
Galerie Drouant, Paris, 1959.
Pomeroy Gallery, San Francisco, 1961.
Frank Partridge Gallery, New York, 1966.
Nichido Gallery, Tokyo, 1968.
Tamenaga Gallery, Tokyo, 1970, 1987, 1988.
Wally Findley Gallery, Chicago, 1981, 1984.
Galerie Guigné, Paris, 1988.
Galerie Hénot, Enghien-les-Bains, 1993.
Galerie Hénot, La Rochelle, 1996.

Jean-Pierre Capron was born on 4 August 1921 in Cannes. After his secondary education, he intended to study architecture, but gave it up to devote himself to painting. At the end of the war, he enrolled at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where his fellow student was Bernard Buffet.
In 1950 Jean-Pierre Capron had his first private exhibition in Paris at Maurice Garnier's Galerie Visconti. At this exhibition, Jean Cassou, then chief curator of the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, bought him a painting for the museum.
The following year he won the Conte-Carrière painting prize.
In 1952 he was shortlisted for the Prix de la Critique and the Prix de la Jeune Peinture.
Since then he has had regular private exhibitions in Paris (Galerie Drouant-David, then Galerie Drouant) and has taken part in numerous exhibitions abroad.
From 1968 onwards, Jean-Pierre Capron's work was distributed mainly in France, the United States and Japan.
In 1970 he was taken on under contract by Maurice Garnier and joined the team of painters at his gallery: Bernard Buffet, Michel de Gallard, Jansem, Commère, Hauterive; he was present with them at all the gallery's group exhibitions.
In 1975, at the same Maurice Garnier Gallery, he held an exhibition on the theme of ‘Greece and the Mediterranean’.
In the meantime he exhibited in New York, Houston and again in Chicago.
Since 1968 he has had regular one-man shows in Japan, first at the Nichido Gallery, and since 1970 under the aegis of the Taménaga Gallery. The last two were in 1987 and 1988. He has also been invited to various prestigious exhibitions at this gallery, with Aïzpiri, Bardone, Brasilier, Buffet, Carzou, Jansem and Weisbuch.
At the same time, he took part in annual exhibitions in France and abroad, particularly in Canada at the Martal gallery in Montreal.
In 1979 he signed a contract with the Wally Findlay gallery in Chicago, which organised his first exhibition in 1981 in the presence of the city's mayor, and a second in 1984.
The ‘Vision nouvelle’ gallery commissioned several lithographs from him. In 1985 he joined the new team of painters at the Galerie Guigné in Paris. In 1993 he exhibited at the Galerie Hénot in Enghien-les-Bains, then in 1996 at the Galerie Hénot in La Rochelle.
He died in July 1997.

SALONS
Salon d'Automne (Member)
Salon de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Member)
Comparaisons’ Salon
Salon des Peintres Témoins de leur Temps
Latin Lands’ Salon
Salon d'Automne d'Angers

MUSEUMS
Paris Museum of Modern Art
Paris Municipal Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Poitiers
Museum of Contemporary Art, Fontainebleau
Museum of Baux-de-Provence
Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva (Switzerland)
Abbeg Foundation Zurich (Switzerland)
American Universities (Cummings Donation)
Rectorat de Rouen
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Marc Sandoz, Revue des amis des musées de Poitiers, 1951.
- J.-P. Capron’, Jacques de Lacretelle of the Académie française and Raymond Cogniat, Inspector General of Fine Arts, Les cahiers de la peinture, 1959.
- J.-P. Capron’, Henri Asselin, La Revue française, January 1961. ‘J.-P. Capron’, Jacques de Lacretelle of the Académie française, Société française de régies, 1967.
- Le monde secret de J.-P. Capron’, Jean-Robert Delahaut, Terre d'Europe, July 1968.
- J.-P. Capron : un cubisme hérité de l'art roman’, B. Duplessis