Jean Coulot (1928-2010)

To say that this Neuchâtel-born painter was a great landscape artist would be an understatement  : From the early 50s, he produced a series of images of the Camargue, Côte d’Azur, Greece, Massif Central and Brittany, where he was fascinated by the changing colors of the sea. Colors that he rendered on canvas in two different ways. Sometimes in the manner of pop-art artists, using carefully delineated flat tints. Sometimes with the rich palette of an artist who knew perfectly his craft. Always spectacular, his works have been exhibited at the Centre Georges-Pompidou, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques and museums in Lausanne, Rehovot and Reykjavik.