The signature of life with Paco Ojeda (Oil of canvas 240x200)
Pierre Restany
He was the most important critic of the post-war period in France. Andy Warhol referred to him as “a legend”. He was an off-beat character on the arts scene, known across the globe – a living legend in countries like Japan and the United States.
In 1960, the global art critic Pierre Restany founded new realism with Yves Klein, Armand, Césear, Tinguely, Hains, Christo and Niki de Saint Phalle…
*The Lucas brothers, Henry Périer and Pierre Restany
The bull ring in Ronda
Antonio Ordoñez
The great Antonio Ordoñez who I met in Seville to exhibit the large-format paintings produced with Paco Ojeda, Espartaco. Antonio Ordoñez said to me: “I want you to exhibit them in my museum in Ronda”. With the demands of everyday life, time passed and I did not exhibit in his museum. I regret it.
The bull ring in Ronda is probably the oldest in Spain and the most spectacular for its monumental beauty. Even today, Antonio Ordoñez is considered to be one of the greatest matadors of the 20th century. His close friends included the author Ernest Hemingway and the actor and film director Orson Wells, whose ashes were scattered over the property of his friend Antonio Ordoñez at his request.
*Lucas and his daughter in the bull ring in Ronda
Henry Périer
Biographer of Pierre Restany, art historian and independent exhibition curator: Bernard Buffet, Jacques Villegli, Robert Combas, Peter Klasen, Claude Viala, Lucas…
Curator of the Lucas exhibition at the Veranneman Foundation in Flanders.
*Henry Périer and Lucas
at the Verannemen Foundation
Fondation Veranneman
By presenting a complete set of 150 paintings by LUCAS, including 30 large-format canvases (220×250), the Veranneman foundation in Belgium offered the artist a spectacular introduction to the art world.
Emile Veranneman, the foundation’s owner, is a prominent designer.
Exhibitions at the Veranneman Foundation include Constant Permeke, Soulage, Botero, Boisrond, Lucas, Roger Nellens, Eugene Dodeigne, Wesselmann, Combas and Salvador Dali.
*Lucas and Emile Veranneman
in front of a sculpture by César
Lascaux – Lucas
By Denis Vialou
Preface to the Lucas exhibition catalogue at the Veranneman Foundation.
Denis Vialou is a prehistorian and specialises in prehistoric art.
He lectures at the Institute of Human Palaeontology and is director of the prehistory laboratory of the National Natural History Museum in Paris.
Jean Cau to Lucas
“I admire your initiative, your asceticism, but let me tell you again, without your majestic talent, and I use these words wittingly, your ceremonial song would not “bring down the vaults of the temple” in the words of Esprit Fléchier…”
Author, journalist, polemicist, secretary to Jean-Paul Sartre age 22 and recipient of the Prix Goncourt for ‘The Mercy of God’.