Léon Gischia

Léon Gischia (Dax, Landes, 1903 - 1991), a French painter who worked in Paris also with Le Corbusier and F. Léger on the decoration of the Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux (1937).

The artist's works are featured in numerous major museums of modern art, including the Musée National d’Art Moderne and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Many retrospectives were dedicated to him at the Paris Art Centre in 1985, the Galerie d’Art International in Paris in 1988, the Musée de Zagreb in 1988, the Musée de Borda in 1988, the Paris Art Centre in 1990. He also participated in the Venice Biennal in 1988.