20th-century French painters

Jean_Hélion

Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He was also the author of several books and an extensive body of critical writing.

Gérard_Garouste

Gérard Garouste (born 10 March 1946) is a French contemporary artist having the primary field of work as visual and performative domain.Since 1979, he has lived and worked in Marcilly-sur-Eure in Normandy, where he founded an educational and social action group to help children with art called La Source.
He has been married to designer Élisabeth Garouste since 1969.

Paul_Gachet

Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (30 July 1828 – 9 January 1909) was a French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise. Gachet was a great supporter of artists and the Impressionist movement. He was an amateur painter, signing his works "Paul van Ryssel", referring to his birthplace: Rijsel is the Dutch name of Lille.

Henri_Cadiou

Henri Cadiou (March 26, 1906, Paris – April 6, 1989) was a French realist painter and lithographer, best known for his work in trompe-l'œil paintings. He is credited with being a founder of the l’école de la réalité in 1949 (now called Mouvement Trompe-l'œil-réalité). The movement, a reaction against abstract art, became relevant at the Salon de Mai of 1960, where Cadiou exhibited almost photorealistic paintings. These paintings (in particular Shower Curtain and Electoral Panel) caused a stir in the artistic community.Cadiou’s trompe-l'œil paintings feature large groups of everyday objects depicted in a realistic style. He was also a painter of genre scenes.Due to renewed interest in precursors to contemporary hyperrealism, the group of painters associated with the “peintres de la réalité” have been seeing a contemporary resurgence, with recent exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Henri-Edmond_Cross

Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, (20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910) was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was a significant influence on Henri Matisse and many other artists. His work was instrumental in the development of Fauvism.

Adolphe_Willette

Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 in Châlons-sur-Marne – 4 February 1926 in Paris) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondissement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections.

Martial_Raysse

Martial Raysse (born 12 February 1936 in Golfe-Juan) is a French artist and actor. He lives in Issigeac, France. He holds the record for the most expensive work sold by a living French artist.