Henri Jannot 1909-2004

Henri Jannot 1909-2004
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: H 33 cm
W 55 cm
Subject: Landscape, Canal Saint-Denis
Notes: Label "Canal Saint-Denis number 11"
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Full name: Henri-Fernand Jannot
Date of birth: January 27, 1909 in Paris (3rd arrondissement)
Date of death: July 16, 2004
Nationality: French
Studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the studio of Lucien Simon.
Meeting artists such as Robert Humblot, Georges Rohner, and Jean Lasne, future collaborators.

Forces Nouvelles Movement
In 1935, co-founder of the Forces Nouvelles group, with Humblot, Rohner, Lasne, Tal-Coat, and others.

This movement, created in reaction to avant-garde movements such as Cubism and Abstraction, advocated a return to drawing, figuration, and realism, inspired by the masters of the Renaissance and the 17th century.

The group was active until 1939, just before the Second World War.

Exhibitions and Recognition
Henri Jannot exhibited regularly:
Salon des Tuileries from 1935, participation in important salons in Paris and throughout France.

International exhibitions (Philadelphia, Tokyo, São Paulo).
Major retrospectives of his work at the Grand Palais (1983), Centre Pompidou, museums in Düsseldorf, Montbard, etc.

Work and Style
Jannot primarily painted figurative compositions: portraits, rural scenes, still lifes, and landscapes.

His work places great importance on rigorous drawing and structure, blending realism and modernity.

Major works:
Man with a Plough (1937; National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou)

Number of canvases acquired by the French State, the City of Paris, or held in French and international museums.
Main distinctions
Henri Jannot received several prizes and medals:
Painting Prize from the General Council of Seine-et-Oise (1963)

Silver Medal (1968) and Gold Medal (1969) at the Salon des Artistes Français
Grand Prize of the Salon des Artistes Français (1976)
Other national and municipal distinctions throughout his career.

Legacy
Henri Jannot is considered an important 20th-century French painter, a figure of the return to realism and figuration after modern experimentation. His work illustrates the search for a structured painting, attentive to drawing and representation.

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