Galerie Alain Margaron
Derain, Deux, Hélion, Music, From Model to Self-Portrait
Group show
Jean Hélion, Autoportrait, 1959, huile sur toile, 46 x 55 cm
The human body continued to fascinate 20th-century artists.
Derain, deeply shocked by the amputation of his comrades’ bodies in the trenches, returned to figurative art.
In Hélion’s case, his profound interest in others, women, his model, and his aesthetic type, Pegeen, led him to a reflection that was both structural and erotic.
As for Music, his work explored the confrontation between body and death in the camps, resistance and decline in old age, counterbalanced by his need for love and poetry, embodied by his wife, Ida.
Deux focused on the human body beneath the skin. His self-portraits represent a high point in his oeuvre.
Group show of Jean Hélion, Fred Deux, André Dérain and Zoran Music
From May 27 to July 11, 2026
Rendez-Vous
Sunday 31 May 2026 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Round table and Guided tour – Galerie Alain Margaron
Paris, France 01 42 74 20 52 galerieamargaron.com
The gallery
Founded in Paris in the early 1990s by Alain Margaron, the gallery is dedicated to modern and post-war art. For over thirty years, it has maintained a long-term commitment, championing major 20th-century artists.
The gallery maintains close and lasting relationships with private collectors and institutions, both in France and internationally, and works exclusively with a collection of works it has built up over the years, forming a coherent and independent body of work.
Gallery artists
Jean Hélion, Bernard Réquichot, André Derain, Zoran Music, Dado, Fred Deux, René Laubiès, Jörg Immendorff
