Jean DEWASNE
Welcome to the official website dedicated to the painter Jean Dewasne (1921–1999)
ACTUALITÉ EXHIBITIONS ART FAIRS EVENTS
Jean Dewasne exhibition, Almine Rech gallery
Almine Rech Paris Matignon
10 January–14 March 2026
The Almine Rech Paris gallery in Matignon is presenting its first solo exhibition of Jean Dewasne’s work.
Abstraction Excentrique
Consortium Museum, Dijon
05/12/2025 – 24/05/2026
This exhibition brings together six major artists of geometric abstraction, including Jean Dewasne.
Abstraction is an ethic, a way of life that adapts.
Jean Dewasne
JEAN DEWASNE PAINTER THÉORIST
Biography
Jean Dewasne, born in Hellemmes-Lille in 1921, is one of the masters of French constructive abstraction.
After extensive classical and musical studies, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he attended architecture workshops.
He then turned to painting and became an ardent advocate of abstraction. In 1946, he contributed to the creation of the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles alongside Auguste Herbin and received the Kandinsky Prize…
Work
Dewasne’s work combines visual arts, architecture, music, mathematics, urban planning and industry in a whirlwind of complex geometric shapes and bright, flat colours.
In search of a personal visual language, he abandoned painting in favour of technical and industrial materials…
Exhibitions
The Denise René Gallery organised his first solo exhibition in 1949, showcasing paintings of great formal rigour.
Today, his work features in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and others.
Art constantly struggles against cultural and sensory alienation;
it operates outside the comfort zone.
Jean Dewasne
CONTACT
JEAN DEWASNE COMMITEE
The Scientific Committee, which is responsible for continuing research into the painter’s work and disseminating it as widely as possible, is composed of art historians, museum directors and eminent specialists on the artist.
Contact: Gérard Galby