The first monograph of the painter Nicolas Ionesco, born in 1919 in Bucharest, active all his life in Paris, who occupied a prominent place in the art of the 1950s before being forgotten because of the direction he had taken his work: an opportunity to reconsider everything anew.
Serge Lemoine (born 1943 in Laon, france), professor emeritus at the Sorbonne, former president of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, is a specialist in the history of twentieth-century art, particularly
geometric abstraction and
kineticism, as well as nineteenth-century art, especially Puvis de Chavannes.