Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took up a position in Paris at the Ministry of the Navy, where he spent his entire professional career. Nevertheless, Sanglar painted his entire life. He frequents the “underground” artistic circles in New York and London, where he meets Francis Bacon and other noteworthy characters. Many pieces were discovered after his death in 1996, including an important series about the Holocaust. In the 1960s, he was frequently exhibited in Paris, where he was awarded a silver medal. Of note, in August of 1968, he met Picasso at a joint exhibition. He expresses his pain in facing the reality of the world when he states, “I don’t pretend to be a witness. I don’t paint to say something; it’s a job, not a hobby.” In his work, rigor remains the watchword, it is present in all his constructions where it is characterized by the use of space in large flat areas of uniform colors, harmonized in different geometric planes leaving a significant space to the universe in which his characters evolve. “I’m not interested in the finished canvas. It is the next one that is important!" An assertive talent that presents to us a humanity that is both surrealist and grotesque. The rhythm is lively and violent; the strokes of pastel or knife marks incise a layer of still fresh paint, winding into endless hanks to give birth to mysterious golems with hollow orbits, opening onto the world a hallucinated haunting look. Expressive facial expressions, whitish bodies, gigantic hands, characters in strangely offbeat situations, in this fascinating universe that leaves on questioning. A world of unbridled freedom, derision, from which deformed bodies spring, sometimes lying on a beach in the sun, playing the trumpet or double bass, spinning, cruelly entangling and drawing the reality of a tragic-comic world. Sangla joins, in his unique style, the expressionist universes of an Edvard Munch, a Lucian Freud, an Egon Schiele or Francis Bacon. He accomplishes this through a sharp look at the world around him. Today, through his work, we have the privilege to discover the fantastic Universe of Sangla.
Le Passeur
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Revival
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Upside-Down Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media Painting, Late 20th Century
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Neo-Expressionist Blue Abstraction: Late 20th Century Framed Painting
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Hommage à Baselitz: Neo-Expressionist Painting, Late 20th Century
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Acrobatic shadows
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Les Aériennes
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Venus Beach: Neo-Expressionist Oil and Mixed Media Painting
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Round Abstract Figures, Neo-Expressionist Painting, Late 20th Century
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Naked Blues Abstract Painting, Oil Crayon & Pastel, Late 20th Century
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Beach Game Painting, Neo-Expressionist, Mixed Media, Late 20th Century
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Photomaton
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Sunset Abstract Painting, Neo-Expressionist, Oil Crayon & Pastel
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Neo-Expressionist Oil and Mixed Media Painting, Late 20th Century
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
$3,797
H 28.75 in W 40.56 in D 1.47 in
Tuscany Meadow with Long Evening Shadows, Flowers, Summer Evening, Abstract
By Elaine Kazimierczuk
Located in Deddington, GB
A meadow in Tuscany on a summer's evening at my friend's house, near Sestina. The heat of the day has left a balmy warmth and the low sun is casting long deep shadows across the wild...
Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic, Canvas, Mixed Media
$920
H 40 in W 28 in
Realities, Body and Nature Landscape, Nude Tones, Desert Modernism, Botanical
By Perrine Honoré
Located in Barcelona, ES
This beautiful painting by Perrine Honoré explores the intimate relationship between the human body and the natural world through a layered, abstract-figurative composition. Fragment...
Paper, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
$595
H 23.63 in W 19.69 in D 0.71 in
"Ghost of the Gardens" (original flora, floral, vibrant, abstract landscape)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
"Ghosts of the Gardens" is a mysterious and captivating abstract painting, evoking the untamed beauty of wild gardens and chaotic floral motifs with its energetic and loose movement....
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic
$1,057
H 26.38 in W 26.38 in D 1.18 in
Resonant Lines, South Downs, Original art, Semi Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
“Resonant Lines” is part of my Landscapes of the inner eye series of paintings which explore the memory of places that we carry in our imagination rather tha...
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Varnish, Oil Crayon, Board, Gr...
Point of Trust
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Point of Trust" (Part I of a diptych) From the Series: "Between States" "Point of Trust" opens a diptych within the "Between States" series, serving as a visual manifesto of the t...
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Point of Trust II
Located in Zofingen, AG
“Point of Trust II” From the series Between States (Part II of the diptych) “Point of Trust II” continues the visual dialogue initiated in the first part of the diptych. It explores...
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$920
H 40 in W 28 in
Coral Pieces, Abstract Seascape, Urban Design Style, Dark Tones on Paper, 2025
By Perrine Honoré
Located in Barcelona, ES
Coral Pieces is a bold and immersive abstract painting that draws inspiration from organic marine forms, interpreted through vibrant color fields and dynamic gestures. Vivid blues an...
Paper, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Quiet Strenght
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Quiet Strength" From the series "Between States" This work explores the state of inner resilience—a strength that does not manifest through tension or resistance, but exists as a qu...
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Inner Relief
Located in Zofingen, AG
“Inner Relief” From the series “Between States” This work explores the landscape as a reflection of an inner state — a space where emotional, bodily, and psychological processes eme...
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$890
H 40 in W 28 in
Wild Instant, Abstract Expressionist Gestures. Blooming Flowers in Vivid Tones
By Perrine Honoré
Located in Barcelona, ES
In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...
Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Paper
$920
H 40 in W 28 in
Color-Driven Painting, Gestural Abstraction, Atmospheric Sunset Tones on Paper
By Perrine Honoré
Located in Barcelona, ES
This original painting by muralist Perrine Honoré radiates warmth through sweeping gestures of coral, saffron, and turquoise layered over a luminous yellow ground. Fluid brushwork an...
Paper, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
$920
H 40 in W 28 in
Flowing, Vigorous Brushstrokes, Fresh Gestures, Turquoise and Coral Abstract
By Perrine Honoré
Located in Barcelona, ES
In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...
Paper, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Upside-Down Blues
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
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H 48.04 in W 66.93 in
Dancing Figures on a Grey, Red, Yellow & Blue background.
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Hommage à Baselitz
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic