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Jean de Botton
“To my knowledge, there is no destiny today comparable to that of the painter Jean de Botton,” wrote Frank Elgar, a 20th-century journalist and art critic.
Jean de Botton (1898-1978) transformed the mundane into poetry, distilling the rhythm of the sea, the delicacy of a flower, and the gleam of a lobster’s shell into both elegant harmonies and discordances of color. Wielding a double-edged sword, de Botton developed an artistic style that paired his loose, expressionist, American technique with his traditional, technical training at the École de Paris. He regularly employs bright colors and structured forms to breathe life and dynamism into otherwise static subject matter. As Eric Newton, the president of the British Section of the International Association of Art Critics, said, “Jean de Botton is a poet of hope”.
L’Enfant Gallery is proud to house over 50 artworks by Jean de Botton, a selection of which can be found below.
