Armand Marie Guerin - Artist Info

About Armand Marie Guerin

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Armand Manago-Guerin
  • Biography

    The painter known as Armand-Marie Guérin (1913-1983) was born in Paris and grew up as part of a family of successful artists. Both his father, marine and landscape painter Vincent Manago (1880-1936) and his older brother, Dominique Manago, were respected artists...but they painted in radically different styles...styles that were so far removed from that of Armand-Marie that he used Guérin as his last name when signing his work.

    He studied at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was a student of Jean-Pierre Laurens among others. He is listed in Bénézit as well as other art compendiums and is a noted figure with regards to the French naïve school style of painting. (A group that includes Cezanne, Van ...

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