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Morellet, François

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Personal name headingMorellet, François
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See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Groupe de recherche d'art visuel (Paris, France)
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Other standard no.0000 0000 8078 2591
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Biography/History noteFrançois Morellet (1926-2016) was a French artist and plastician.
Associated countryFrance
Birth date1926-04-30
Death date2016-05-10
Place of birthCholet (France)
Place of deathCholet (France)
Field of activityArt, Abstract
Profession or occupationArtists Painters Sculptors
Found inAuthor's Morellet, 1967.
réinstallations, 2011: title page (François Morellet) page 268 (born April 30, 1926 in Cholet, Anjou)
New York times WWW site, viewed May 16, 2016 (in obituary published May 13: François Morellet; François Charles Alexis Albert Morellet; b. Apr. 30, 1926, Cholet; d. there Tuesday [May 10, 2016], aged 90; French painter and sculptor whose use of unorthodox materials like neon lights, sticky tape, and metal rods left a distinctive mark on postwar abstract art)
New York times, 18 Dec. 2023: in an obituary of Vera Molnar on page B6 (By the early 1960s, [Molnar] was enough of a recognized figure in the art world to join with François Morellet, Julio Le Parc and others to form the influential collective Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, which sought to incorporate science and industrial materials into the making of art)
Associated languagefre