Contemporary painter · Since 1961
Alain Mathiot
Since 1961, Alain Mathiot has painted animals, figures and landscapes pared down to the essential. Winner of the first Fénéon Prize, exhibited from Paris to New York — discover his original works, available directly from the artist.
“Primitive paintings, first paintings, archetypal paintings.”
Michel Giroud, Les Figures de la Peinture, 1989
A donkey, a tree, an old machine: Alain Mathiot chooses the simplest subjects and paints them head-on, with no setting and no story. What remains is colour, matter and silhouette. From that economy comes an immediate image, at once familiar and distant, that seems to rise from far back in memory.
The collections
Three supports, one handwriting
The artist
Sixty years of painting
Born in 1938 and awarded the first Fénéon Prize in 1961, Alain Mathiot has built from his studio in Hugier a body of work praised by critics and exhibited from Paris to New York.
Meet the artistCareer
Exhibitions since 1961
- 2025 9 rue du Capitaine Faure Besançon
- 1992 FIAC — Galerie Krief Paris
- 1990 RVS Fine Art Southampton, New York · United States
Welcome a work into your home
Every painting is a unique, signed piece that leaves the studio to carry on its life elsewhere. A selection of original works is available for acquisition.