Obituary: Andre Fougeron

The Independent - London | September 18, 1998| | Copyright

ANDRE FOUGERON was the foremost socialist realist painter in France. With an admirable tenacity he maintained his belief in painting's duty to comment on the social injustices of the day, from Third World famine to contemporary police brutality and racism; "De la negritude" was the title of a 1994 exhibition at the Galerie Jacques Barbier.

As a very young art historian, I met Andre Fougeron in 1979 while involved with the retrospective exhibition at the Pompidou Centre: "Paris-Paris, Creations en France 1937-1957". This necessarily included coverage of the Occupation years and the socialist ...

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