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Maryan (1927-1977)

Read the introductory text to Maryan's work in the exhibition catalogue JACQUES / MAO / MARYAN : HERE

Born in 1927 in Novy-Sacz, Poland as Pinchas Burstein, Maryan lived throughout his adolescence the atrocities of various ghettos, labor camps and concentration camps. He left at the age of 18 with a leg amputated, without family and without resources.

He left for Palestine  in 1947 on the advice of a Jewish Agency official. Arrived on the spot, considered infirm, he finds himself in an establishment for elderly migrants. By dint of courage and perseverance, he nevertheless manages to integrate the School of Arts Bezalel. He throws himself headlong into painting and begins to make himself known.


In 1950, he moved to Paris. He signs and is now called MARYAN.

In addition to the pictorial creation, Maryan begins an important graphic and lithographic work.

The galleries  gradually took an interest in his work and from the end of the 1950s, several of them represented him over time. 

In 1962, he decided to leave to live in the United States. He will continue to return regularly to Paris.

He died suddenly in 1977.

 

EXHIBITIONS
During her lifetime, MARYAN benefited from numerous solo exhibitions in European and American galleries: Galerie de France, Galerie Claude Bernard, Galerie Nova Spectra, Galerie Allan Frumkin, Galerie Benador...

He has also participated in a variety of group exhibitions in museums: MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum, Carnegie Museum, Whitney Museum, Indianapolis Museum, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Ghent Museum, Musée Rath, Musées des Beaux-Arts de Nantes , Rennes and Tourcoing, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris...

His work is part of important public collections in Europe, the United States and Israel.


Over the past ten years, a variety of initiatives aimed at having the importance of his painting recognized and showing it to the general public have been carried out, giving rise to major exhibitions at the Spertus Museum in Chicago and at theMuseum of Art and History of
Judaism of Paris
.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Miami (MOCA) is currently hosting a retrospectiveMy Name is Maryanuntil March 20, 2022, curated by Alison Gingeras..

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