FRANCOIS MORELLET.(artist, retrospective exhibition, Jeu de Paume in Paris)

GALERIE NATIONALE DU JEU DE PAUME, PARIS

A few choice pages extracted from a vast volume--that would be one way to describe the Francois Morellet exhibition recently presented by the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume. This two story space, once a temple of Impressionism, is sizable enough, but it still couldn't accommodate a complete retrospective (thus making the necessity for one all the more glaring) of a prolific artist, now seventy-four years old, whose first pictorial forays date back to the immediate postwar period.

Nonetheless, curator Daniel Abadie, who organized the ...

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