Robert Lapoujade

Painter, Robert Lapoujade held his first exhibition of figurative works in Montauban in 1939. He moved to Paris in 1942 and worked as an illustrator for the Éditions du Seuil, for which he designed the logo, still used today. From 1949 onwards, his art moves towards abstraction without the artist totally renouncing figuration. Signatory of the Manifesto of 121, he denounces the torture in Algeria in several of his exhibitions: Sartre accompanies one of them with a text presenting him as the "new painter of the masses. Robert Lapoujade also devoted himself to the cinema and directed several animated films for the research department of the ORTF, directed by Pierre Schaeffer, as well as two feature films: Le Socrate, which won the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1968, and Le Sourire Vertical (1973), censored for pornography. He also wrote two essays: Le Mal à voir (1951), Les Mécanismes de fascination (1955), and a novel L'Inadmissible (1970).