ArtistLarrieu, Jean-Francois

Artist NationalityFrench

TitleBouquet pour Matilda

Yearca. 2000

MediumPainting > Acrylic

DimensionsCanvas: 13 X 16 inches

Accession NumberRC1904

NotesBorn in the Midi-Pyrénées, France, in 1960, Jean-François Larrieu made a spectacular debut as an artist by winning the Grand Prize by François Villon Academy; the painting prize by the Béarnais museum of the city of Pau in his teens.

Since 1990, he has presided over the Salon d’Automne de Paris and over the government- affiliated Foundation for Graphic and Plastic Arts. He is also the president of the Foundation of the Historic Salons of the Grand Palais and President of the Taylor Foundation in Paris since 2010.

Jean-François Larrieu has exhibited in over sixty solo exhibitions worldwide since the beginning of his career in 1982. His work has been the focus of major museum exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing, China; the National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; the Santilana Foundation, Santander, Spain; the Museum Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon; the Fine Arts Museum, Shanghai, China; the Lima Museum, Lima, Peru; the Okinawa Garden Museum, Tokyo, Japan and the Fine Arts Museum, Bordeaux, France.
(source: Eternity Gallery)