Galerie Iris ClertActor from M HKA Ensembles

Galerie Iris Clert

Iris Clert, born as Iris Athanassiadis in 1917 in Athens, moved to Paris in the 1930s. She joined, together with her husband, filmproducer Claude Clert, the French resistance during World War II. She was a famous art dealer and curator and from 1955 until 1962 she owned her first Iris Clert Gallery in Paris, where she supported artists as Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely, and thus is partly responsible for their fame. From 1962 to 1971 she moved her gallery to another address and started working with artists like Hains, Fontana, etc. Her one room gallery became an avant-garde hotspot and soon a great success. After the closure of her gallery she introduced Le Stradart, a transparent truck driving around with artworks, a travelling gallery as it were. In 1978 she wrote her biography ‘Iris-Time: l’artventure’. She died in Cannes in 1986.

Jef Verheyen met Iris Clert in 1956, through Raymond Dauphin.

Works

>Galerie Iris Clert, Jef Verheyen, • 0821 • Ruimte, 1958-1959.Painting, oil paint on canvas, 42 x 32 cm.

>Galerie Iris Clert, Jef Verheyen, Sammlung Lenz, • 0555 • Ora d'Iris, 1960.Painting, oil paint and mixed technique on canvas, 101 x 82 cm.

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>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Iris Clert, • 0594 • Aurora Pink (Lichtbegrenzing), 1969.Painting, matt lacquer on canvas, 130 x 130 cm.

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>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Iris Clert, List of works: T II V VII - T III V VIII - V I T V - Lichtbegrenzing - Aurora Pink - Lichtstroom - Venetië - Lichtwenteling, 1970.Text, ink on paper, 2 sides.

>Galerie Iris Clert, Jef Verheyen, Letter from Iris Clert to Jef Verheyen (26 September 1970), 1970.Letter, ink on paper, 26,9 x 20,9 cm / 2 sides.

>Galerie Iris Clert, Jef Verheyen, Jef Verheyen and Iris Clert at the opening of 'Panchromies', 1970.Photography, photograph.

>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Iris Clert, Vlaamse Gemeenschap / Flemish Community, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, • 0442 • Ca y est, 1970.Painting, oil? paint on canvas, 130 x 130 cm, 132 x 132 cm with frame.

>Galerie Iris Clert, Jef Verheyen, Jef Verheyen - Panchromies, 1970.Book, ink on paper.

>Jef Verheyen, Galerie Iris Clert, Sammlung Lenz, • 0109 • T III V VIII 7 (Hommage à Mondriaan - Monet), 1970.Painting, matt lacquer and synthetic resin (polyvinyl) on canvas, 97 x 97 cm with frame.

>Galerie Iris Clert, Jef Verheyen, List of works exhibited in 'Panchromies' at Galerie Iris Clert in 1970, 1971.Text, ink on paper, 9 sides.

>Galerie Iris Clert, Mu.ZEE, Jef Verheyen, • 0506 • T I V II Diagon, 1974.Painting, matt lacquer on canvas, 130 x 130 cm, 146,5 x 146,5 cm with frame.