Alain Lestié
Illustration — Portrait of Alain Lestié Alain Lestié is a French painter and writer, born in Hossegor in 1944, who lives and works in Cannes and in Paris. Since the end of the 1960s, Alain Lestié's work has been a reflection on the critical dimension of painting.
Also recorded as Alain Lestie
Alain Lestié
- Full name
- Alain Pierre Lestié.
- Born
- 1944. · Soorts-Hossegor.
- Died
- 2024. · Cannes.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter and illustrator.
- Languages
- French.
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Alain Lestié appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a painter (born 6 August 1944).
Life
Alain Lestié was born on 6 August 1944.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Recent exhibitions
2022 • "Scattered Moments" Topic Gallery, Saint-Raphaël until May 12 • "Detached Stances" Depardieu Gallery, Nice 2021 • "from time to time" GaG Gallery, Bordeaux • "3 times the measure" (B.Maire): Galerie Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
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Soorts-Hossegor.
Birth place
Cannes.
Death place
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reference work
- “Alain Lestié”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Bordeaux : figure de l’art contemporain, le peintre et essayiste Alain Lestié est mort. SudOuest.fr. 2024-01-30.
- 2.Alain. Drouard. IV. Regards d’hier et d’aujourd’hui sur les sciences sociales au tournant des années soixante. Le développement des sciences sociales en France. CNRS Éditions. 1983-01-01. 136–162. 2024-01-31.
- 3.Alain Lestié : Séquence en noirs. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
- 4.Encore, après : Alain Lestié. musba-bordeaux.fr.
- 5.Dernier souffle : Alain Lestié. musba-bordeaux.fr.
- 6.Transition : Alain Lestié. musba-bordeaux.fr.
- 7.Maternité 1973 : Alain Lestié. musba-bordeaux.fr.
- 8.Mouvement perpétuel : Alain Lestié. musba-bordeaux.fr.
- 9.King : Alain Lestié. musba-bordeaux.fr.
- 10.Le Territoire de l'aménagement : Alain Lestié. navigart.fr.
- 11.Joconde - Catalogue.
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