American, 20th century, male.
Born 7 June 1931, in Eatonton (Georgia).
Painter, draughtsman (including ink), collage artist, print artist, sculptor, collector, art historian. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, figure compositions, scenes with figures, landscapes. Designs for stained glass.
David C. Driskell earned a BFA at Howard University in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 20 February 1930, in Rabastens.
Sculptor of assemblages, collage artist, mixed media.
Paul Duchein earned his living as a pharmacist and dispensing chemist in Montauban. An avid collector of populist art, African masks and contemporary works, his own output bears all the hallmarks of Surrealism. Taking his cue from André Breton's dictum extolling the artistic relevance of 'the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life', Duchein began in the 1970s to collect objects - ...
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 11 June 1953.
Painter, collage artist.
Michel Tabanou is primarily a collector, a painter whose work is based on accumulation, amassing a huge technical and physical repertory of material to create clever and unusual collages based on disparate elements such as decals, print-outs and original graphics. His images are abstract but also contrive to suggest a mixture of masts and rigging set in the context of an abandoned harbour or a deserted breaker's yard. This initial image is soon succeeded by another recurrent theme; that of two armies locked in battle. It is left to the viewer to interpret each canvas, reading, the images as one might turn the pages of a book....
