Yves Laloy

About

Yves Laloy was a French painter born into a family of architects in Rennes, France. He studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked briefly in his father's studio before beginning to paint in his spare time around 1947, while also creating carnival frescos. His first exhibitions took place in 1950 in Parisian galleries focused on Surrealism. Discovered by André Breton, one of the last artists he championed, Laloy was featured in Breton's book 'Le Surréalisme et la Peinture.' Despite the surrealist label applied by Breton, Laloy resisted formal affiliation with the movement, developing a diverse practice that included rigorous geometric compositions, undulating cosmogonic worlds, and influences from Indigenous art like Navajo sand paintings, as well as early Christian frescoes later in life.[1][2][3][7]

Surrealism with geometric abstraction and cosmogonic elements