Néjad Devrim : La Dernière Bohême

Signing at Librairie Lardanchet on Thursday 14 September from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m.

Born in Istanbul, Néjad Devrim (1923-1995) arrived in Paris in 1946 and immediately enjoyed critical and public success. A witness to and participant in the effervescence of post-war Paris, he exhibited with Lydia Conti, at the Beaune and Maeght galleries, and at the Mai and Réalités nouvelles salons.

In 1950, Sidney Janis chose him to take part in the first exhibition across the Atlantic to confront European lyrical abstraction with American abstract expressionism. In 1952, with the support of critic Charles Estienne, he founded the Salon d'Octobre. A passionate painter and traveller in search of plastic truth, Devrim is one of the major figures of the École de Paris who should be rediscovered today. Leaving Paris in the late 1960s, he settled in Poland, where he continued to paint until his death.

This book, published to mark the centenary of Néjad Devrim's birth, is the first French monograph devoted to the Turkish artist.