Michel Trinquier

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Michel Trinquier
Born12 October 1931 (1931-10-12) (age 92)
NationalityFrench
EducationBeaux-Arts d'Avignon
Known forPainting
MovementGroupe de l'Atelier
AwardsGrand Prix du Festival d'Avignon, 1961

Michel Trinquier (born 12 October 1931, in Avignon) is a French painter.

Biography

He starts painting in studying after school at "collège Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle in Avignon and becomes member of the "Groupe de l'Atelier". He is also found of paleontology.

In the 1960s he discovers

Belle-Ile
, an island in the Atlantic ocean and he starts to work through "collages" including sand, ropes or shellfish in his paintings.

In 1961 he receives the "Grand prix de peinture du festival d'art dramatique d'Avignon"

musée Calvet
in Avignon.

Main exhibitions

Books

Michel Trinquier has illustrated a poetry book together with Eugène Baboulène, Pierre Cayol, Hervé Di Rosa and Pierre François ,[4] les 81 poèmes de Claude Garcia-Forner, Rayon Bleu[5]

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