La couleur toujours recommencée. Hommage à Jean Fournier, marchand à Paris (1922-2006). Histoire de l’archéologie six empires alternated in the

six empires alternated in the Near East: in Mesopotamia

How could they reabsorb within themselves this great carnivorous sense of desire that moves and intoxicates them

Summary in French

lui aussi inédit

Yanaihara humorously recounts the artist's stubbornness in succeeding at all costs in drawing his nose

La couleur toujours recommencée. Hommage à Jean Fournier, marchand à Paris (1922-2006). Histoire de l’archéologie six empires alternated in theFrom 1954 to 2006, Jean Fournier, a Parisian art dealer, occupied a key position on the French art scene. By championing painting, which had been battered by the emergence of new media, Jean Fournier enabled several generations of abstract artists to develop their work and achieve international recognition. For fifty years, his gallery was a place of exchange, where French and North American artists came together around a common conception of