1. Jean-Michel Coulon was the grandson of Georges Coulon, vice-president of the Conseil d'Etat from 1898 to 1922, and the great-grandson of Eugene Pelletan and Eugene Scribe.
18 Facts About Jean-Michel Coulon
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Jean-Michel Coulon undertook numerous visits to Germany, where he quickly became fluent, and to Italy after high school with his friend and future brother-in-law Olivier Debre Jean-Michel Coulon traveled on cargo ships along the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Africa, on which he managed to board without paying any fees.
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Jean-Michel Coulon was witness to the increase of Fascist ideology: he saw Hitler in Berlin then Mussolini in Rome.
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Jean-Michel Coulon went to Megeve in the French Alps with Olivier Debre.
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Jean-Michel Coulon exhibited at the Jeanne Bucher gallery, in Paris with Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Jean Lurcat, Jean-Paul Laurens, Nicolas de Stael, Andre Lanskoy, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Hans Reichel, Andre Bauchant, Alfred Manessier, Arpad Szenes and Vassily Kandinsky.
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Jean-Michel Coulon exhibited alone at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher in 1950.
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Jean-Michel Coulon took part in a group exhibit in New York, at the Sidney Janis gallery.
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Jean-Michel Coulon spent three months at the Maison Descartes, in Amsterdam, having won a scholarship from the French Government.
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Jean-Michel Coulon became familiar with the Dutch classic painters and learned Dutch.
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Jean-Michel Coulon took the car alone, sometimes, and left to explore some European countries, spending the night with local inhabitants, asking people to open very confidential illuminated archives or drawings kept out of the light.
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Jean-Michel Coulon's 1971 exhibit in Brussels at the Regency gallery organized by Michel Vockaer was a success.
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Jean-Michel Coulon did not renew close contacts with the Paris galleries.
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Jean-Michel Coulon's work went from painting to collages, which were done on oil paintings dating from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Jean-Michel Coulon composed collages in his apartment on sheets of heavy drawing paper.
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Jean-Michel Coulon's spirit remaining intelligent and lively up to the end, he was working to the very last days, still with warm and bright colors.
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Jean-Michel Coulon is buried in Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, with the generations of Coulons.
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Jean-Michel Coulon painted in the greatest secrecy until his death at the end of 2014; he did not let anyone enter his studio and he never showed his painting, even to his relatives.
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The art historian Lydia Harambourg proposed some answers in a first monograph of Jean-Michel Coulon published in June 2018.