Color always begins again. Tribute to Jean Fournier, merchant in Paris (1922-2006).

From 1954 to 2006, Jean Fournier, a Parisian art dealer, occupied a key position on the French art scene. By championing painting, which had been battered by the emergence of new media, Jean Fournier enabled several generations of abstract artists to develop their work and achieve international recognition. For fifty years, his gallery was a place of exchange, where French and North American artists came together around a common conception of painting, placed under the sign of color. In 2007, on the occasion of its reopening, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier paid tribute to the work of Jean Fournier in an exhibition bringing together around a hundred works and twenty leading artists. Thanks to the contributions of the critics, writers, and historians who accompanied Jean Fournier, the catalog highlights for the first time this considerable contribution to 20th-century art and appears as an essential work for the history of abstract art.