“At a time when modern art was moving toward abstraction, the French artist André Fougeron remained firmly anchored in social realism, assiduously chronicling the history of his day in figurative paintings that can be appreciated at an exhibition now showing at La Piscine, a museum in the northeastern French city of Roubaix, near Lille. Until recently, Fougeron had been more or less forgotten in France, although, perhaps surprisingly, the Tate Modern in London dedicated a whole room to him at its opening in 2000. The show at La Piscine aims to remedy that neglect, offering a retrospective of his entire career from its beginnings in 1937. ...”
Atlantic Civilisation, 1953
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