Jean Legros(1917-1981) Untitled 1977 Acrylic on canvas Signed, dated lower right Studio stamp 116 x 72 cm Interested in abstraction, he became a pupil of Jean Dewasne (1921-1999) in 1949. The strength of the colours and the geometric lines of his master's canvases led him to produce works of this type, but in which the colours are not applied in a uniform manner. Around 1957, Jean Legros became aware that his work was tending more and more towards the absolute, with a very spiritual dimension. In 1958 he fell in love with the Beauce region and the vastness of its fields, and set up his studio there. During the 1960s, he achieved a purer, minimal abstraction that he would never abandon, with flat, homogeneous colours. In 1973, Jean Legros entered a period of purely geometric coloured abstraction. "The colours, sometimes static and sometimes dynamic, which combine or, on the contrary, slide and collide, "come to light", to use his own expression. From 1973 to 1981, these were the series of Toiles à bandes, Espaces biais, Oiseaux-nuages, Ronds musicaux, Carrés tensifs and Circuits colorés. Cultivating true intellectual friendships (Aurelie Nemours, Jean Leppien...), his quest for the absolute gave birth to a highly spiritual and abstract painting, with a very personal vision in which the artist unleashes what he himself calls the energetic power of colour. After a lifetime of rigorous research and a demanding body of work, he is now recognised as the Barnett Newman of the United States" (Roger Leloup).