The Columbus Museum of Art will honor Belgian-born Columbus artist Paul-Henri Bourguignon 50 years after the museum’s first showcase of the artist.
“Paul Bourguignon: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective” will run from October 17, 2014 – January 18, 2015.
“Looking at Paul’s work, as a whole, one can see the artist recognizing and digesting the dominant European art trends of the largely mid-twentieth century, never copying but rather working in or through styles similar to Édouard Vuillard, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Amedeo Modigliani and, perhaps, even El Greco,” says Dominique H. Vasseur, chief curator at the Columbus Museum of Art in a press release. ”His early figurative style loses its fussiness and detail and become simple and bold, oftentimes colorful and others, quietly monochromatic.”
At 22, Bourguignon’s first solo show was at the Galérie d'Egmont. He and his wife, Erika, met in Haiti and settled in Columbus after she became a faculty member at The Ohio State University.
For additional information, visit www.columbusmuseum.org.
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