Jean Legros - Artist Info

About Jean Legros

  • Biography

    Jean Legros (1914-1981) is a French abstract painter. Encouraged by Paul Eluard and Ossip Zadkine, trained by Jean Dewasne, Jean Legros began his period of "minimalist abstraction" in the early 1950s.

    Roger Leloup said of him: "he is to France what Barnett Newman is to the United States".

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