{"id":344,"date":"2026-09-26T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/?post_type=product&p=344"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:34:07","slug":"henri-valachman-2-femmes-100-x120-cm-1965","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/product\/henri-valachman-2-femmes-100-x120-cm-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"Henri Valachman \u2014 Deux Femmes, 100 x 120 cm, 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"

Painted in 1965<\/strong>, this intimate composition reflects Henri Valachman\u2019s belief that \u201cthe ordinary is extraordinary.\u201d<\/em> Two women rest beside the sea at sunset, absorbed in a quiet, private moment. Warm ochres and golden skin tones contrast beautifully with deep blues and a glowing orange horizon. With simplified forms and expressive colour, the work captures the distinctive atmosphere of French mid-century modernism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Artist:<\/strong> Henri Valachman
\nTitle:<\/strong> 2 Femmes<\/em>
\nYear:<\/strong> 1965
\nMedium:<\/strong> Oil on canvas
\nDimensions:<\/strong> 100 \u00d7 120 cm
\nSignature:<\/strong> Signed lower left
\nOriginality:<\/strong> Original artwork<\/p>\n

Henri Valachman<\/h3>\n

Henri Valachman (1925\u20132020) was a French painter born in Paris, whose warm and highly personal figurative language transformed everyday life into something quietly extraordinary.<\/strong> He trained at the \u00c9cole des M\u00e9tiers d\u2019Art, rue du Louvre, Paris<\/strong>, and developed a career centred on figurative painting \u2014 interiors, still lifes, landscapes, musicians and, importantly for this work, the female figure.<\/p>\n

Valachman described his own philosophy with unusual simplicity. He said that nature and the objects surrounding him were his references, which he transformed through stylisation and his own chromatic language. Most revealingly, he explained that he tried to demonstrate that \u201cthe ordinary is extraordinary.\u201d<\/strong> He rejected the idea that painting needed an elaborate intellectual message: for him, its purpose was fundamentally connected with the pleasure of painting and the pleasure experienced by the viewer.<\/p>\n

His exhibition history was extensive, particularly in France. His biography records annual participation in exhibitions across 17 French cities<\/strong>, including the Salon Violet<\/strong> and the Salon des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais<\/strong>, as well as regular solo exhibitions in Chilly-Mazarin, Carnac and Galerie Art World<\/strong>. He was also selected or presented by Galerie Thuillier, Galerie Everarts, Galerie Art Pr\u00e9sent and Galerie Eolia<\/strong>, among others.<\/p>\n

His work also reached an international audience. His documented exhibition history includes Mouvance de l\u2019Art in New York<\/strong> and the Salon de Prestige Europ\u00e9en in New Jersey<\/strong>, as well as the Salon des Artistes Europ\u00e9ens 2000.<\/p>\n

Valachman continued exhibiting late into his life: a documented exhibition devoted to his work took place in April 2008, followed by a still-life exhibition in February 2009. His works continue to circulate on the French and international secondary market; Gazette Drouot records paintings including \u00c9vasion litt\u00e9raire<\/em> and L\u2019Anse du P\u00f4, Bretagne<\/em>, while MutualArt maintains auction records for his work.<\/p>\n

Importantly, his known oeuvre was much broader than landscapes and still lifes. Auction archives document groups of female nudes, landscapes, still lifes, musicians and artist subjects<\/strong>, making the female figure an established part of his artistic vocabulary rather than an isolated theme.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original oil on canvas by Bernard Herzog, 2 Femmes<\/em>, 1980.<\/p>\n

Signed lower left.<\/p>\n

100 \u00d7 120 cm.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2},"product_brand":[136],"product_cat":[19],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-344","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-henri-valachman","product_cat-paintings","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artstac.com\/et\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}