SERGE HÉLÉNON
Born 1934 in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
Lives and works in Nice, France.
Hélénon’s oeuvre emerges as significant within a global art world and intellectual community whose attention has turned increasingly toward transatlantic histories and postcolonial theoretical interventions. His art had developed from academic training and publicity design, to folkloric representational strategies, to the appropriation of historical avant-garde styles, up through more enduring abstraction which the artist calls "une figuration Autre." Hélénon took part in his first exhibition in 1960 at the Salon de la Marine in Toulon. He participated in the first historic exhibition of the École Négro-Caraïbe (Black-Caribbean School) was presented at the French cultural center in Abidjan in November 1970. The name of this “school” refers neither to a formalized artistic movement nor to an institution of fine-arts education. Rather it designates Hélénon’s individual output in dialogue with several likeminded Martinican artists of his generation who lived and worked in Francophone West Africa during the immediate post-independence decades.
Serge Hélénon, Dans toute la France, du 17 mars au 11 octobre : 7e Championnat national des routiers, 1957, Gouache on paper, 10.63 x 7.87 in (27 x 20 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Rendez-vous des nations, France, Côte d’Azur, 1957, Gouache on paper, 15.75 x 11.81 in
(40 x 30 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Dansons avec la sonora matancera, 1957-58, Gouache on paper, 12.2 x 12.2 in (31 x 31 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Sans titre (autoportrait), 1958, Gouache on paper, 18.5 x 9.45 in (47 x 24 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Neg-Bwa, 1958, Gouache and pastel on paper, 3.94 x 5.12 in (10 x 13 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, À Bamako, 1960, Gouache on paper, 5.51 x 9.84 in (14 x 25 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Le bord du fleuve à Bamako, 1961, Oil on canvas, 25.59 x 36.22 in (65 x 92 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Nature morte, intérieure, 1961, Oil on canvas, 36.22 x 25.39 in (92 x 64.5 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Crâne de boeuf, 1962, Oil on canvas, 28.74 x 39.37 in (73 x 100 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Paysage de brousse, 1963, Oil on canvas, 21.26 x 25.49 in (54 x 64.75 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Sans titre, 1965, Pastel on paper, 12.6 x 7.87 in (32 x 20 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Sans titre, 1966, Oil on canvas, 39.37 x 39.37 in (100 x 100 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, En pleine latérite, 1971, Oil on canvas, 39.37 x 25.59 in (100 x 65 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Nécessité intérieure (Expression-Bidonville), 1971-72, Cardboard and paint assemblage on wood, 25 x 26.77 in (63.5 x 68 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Personnage en tunique, 1974, Oil and collage on canvas, 39.37 x 37.4 in (100 x 95 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Douvan déyé (Expression-Bidonville), 1979, Mixed media and wood on canvas, with pedestal, 51.38 x 23.62 x 15.75 in (130.5 x 60 x 40 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Sans titre (Expression-Bidonville), 1982, Mixed media on wood, 20.87 x 7.68 x 7.87 in (53 x 19.5 x 20 cm)
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Serge Hélénon
Sans titre (Expression-Bidonville) (Untitled (Shantytown-Expression)), 1982
Mixed media on wood
20.67h x 7.09w x 6.69d in
52.50h x 18w x 17d cm
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Serge Hélénon, Pour mémoire (Expression- Bidonville), 1984, Booklet on painted wood, 33.86 x 27.56 in (86 x 70 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Élévation, 1989, Carborundum engraving, 48.62 x 32.28 in (123.5 x 82 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Souvenir de brousse, 1992, Carborundum engraving, 29.53 x 22.83 in (75 x 58 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Silhouette, 1990, Carborundum engraving, 29.92 x 22.64 in (76 x 57.5 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Sans titre, 1995-98, Lithography and embossing, 29.72 x 22.44 in (75.5 x 57 cm)
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Serge Hélénon, Sans titre, 1980-84, Carborundum engraving, 39.76 x 25.79 in (101 x 65.5 cm)
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