Guiramand Paul

Paul Guiramand was a French artist who was born in 1926 in Saint Quentin and died in 2007 in Paris. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was a pupil of Maurice Brianchon (pupil of Bonnard). In 1952 he received the Prix de Rome. His first personal exhibition took place in 1956 at the Herzog Gallery (Houston). He received the distinction at the Menton Biennale and the Marlborough Prize in 1957. From then on he began collaborating with prestigious American galleries. At the same time, numerous exhibitions were devoted to him in Europe and Japan. In 1960 he made a fresco for the liner France (exhibited in the National Museum of the Navy in 2011). In 1977 he received several commissions from the state (Paris and Saint Germain-en-Laye). In 1987 a retrospective exhibition is dedicated to him at the Stanley Johnson Gallery (Chicago). His works are held in important private and public collections: Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (France), Art Institute of Chicago (USA) and the Yamagata Museum (Japan). (BT)