Michel Thompson

Thompson (1921-2007) begins in a personal style of deformation of forms. Aimé Maeght spotted his work and exhibited it with Matisse, Braque ... in 1946.

In 1949, Michel Thompson decided to concentrate on figurative art, leaving abstraction to his friend Paul Rebeyrolle.
From the mid-1950s, the line dominated the color. The groups are seen in a barely colored or faded color hieraticism.

From the end of the 1980s, he reduced reality to rectilinear geometries, both for urban sites and for figures. They fit into each other, or overlap in a bronze background tone, and as these geometries overlap, they give rise to smaller flat spots, some of which he colors with a thrifty palette, such as so that small parts compensate for an achromatic whole.