Regionalism & Orientalism

Exhibition on Monday, July 7 10am-12pm / 2pm-5pm

Biographies :

Henri-André MARTIN

(1918-2004)

Born in Lyon to a doctor, Henri-André Martin spent his childhood between Saint-Etienne, where his father lived, and the family vacation home in Bresse.

As a teenager, he developed an interest in painting, studying with Joseph LAMBERTON, a painter and sculptor from Saint-Etienne, Henri GROSJEAN, a painter from the Bresse and Jura regions, and Pierre Eugène MONTEZIN, before attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon.

His father's wishes forced him to give up his pictorial vocation and turn to medicine.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon in 1946, where he enjoyed a brilliant career as an ENT specialist in otology until his retirement in 1985.

However, painting remained his second passion, which he practiced until his death in his studios on Boulevard des Belges in Lyon, Rue Saint-Gothard in Paris and his home in Eygalières.

A great admirer and collector of Bernard BUFFET, he was also a friend and patron of many painters, whom he collected and exhibited at the MALAVAL gallery in Lyon, run by his wife: Joseph ALESSANDRI, Jean CARLOTTI, Michel CIRY, André COTTAVOZ, Raymond GUERRIER, Jean FUSARO, Camille HILAIRE, Roland OUDOT, Pierre PELLOUX, Jean PIAUBERT, Louis PONS, Mario PRASSINO, Jacques TRUPHEMUS, Jean SOUVERBIE Henri de WAROQUIER.

Eugène SANDRINI (1925 - 1998)

Born into a family that had settled in La Seyne sur Mer in 1920, Eugène Sandrini was first and foremost a Provencal in love with nature and his native land.

Classified as a Provençal post-impressionist, he is a landscape painter from the Ecole Toulonnaise and a member of the Sociétaire des Artistes Français.

He has exhibited widely in France and abroad, notably at Galerie 20 in Cannes and Galerie Etienne in Toulon.