Michel Trinquier is a French painter who was born the 12 October 1931 in Avignon

Avignon

Avignon is a French commune in southeastern France in the départment of the Vaucluse bordered by the left bank of the Rhône river. Of the 94,787 inhabitants of the city on 1 January 2010, 12 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.Often referred to as the...

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Biography

He starts painting in studying after school at "collège Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle in Avignon and becomes member of the "Groupe de l'Atelier".
He is also found of paleontology

Paleontology

Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...

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In the 60's he discovers Belle-Ile, an island in the Atlantic ocean and he starts to work through "collages" including sand, ropes or shellfish in his paintings.

In 1961 he receives the "Grand prix de peinture du festival d'art dramatique d'Avignon" for a painting now in musée Calvet in Avignon.

Main exhibitions

• 1973 : Galerie Barbizon, rue des Saint-Pères in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  
• 1973 : Galerie Transposition, boulevard Raspail
  Boulevard Raspail
  Boulevard Raspail is a boulevard of Paris, in France.Its orientation is north-south, and joins boulevard Saint-Germain with place Denfert-Rochereau whilst traversing 7th, 6th and 14th arrondissements...
  
   in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  
• 1987 : Salon international d'art contemporain in Toulouse
  Toulouse
  Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  
• 1992 : Galerie Bonias in L'Isle-sur-Sorgue
• 1993 : fondation Vasarely in château de Gordes
• 1995 : Galerie Vincente Beneat in Barcelone

Books

Michel Trinquier has illustrated a poetry book together with Eugène Baboulène, Pierre Cayol

Pierre Cayol

Pierre Cayol is a French contemporary painter.-Biography:Cayol was born in born in Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône. He studied art in Grenoble and Paris at the Academy Jullian. He has lived in Tavel since 1968....

, Hervé Di Rosa

Hervé Di Rosa

Hervé Di Rosa is a French painter.Born in Sète, France, Hervé Di Rosa is a French painter who brings to life the unique characters who populate his work through the making of paintings, sculptures, installations, animation movies, editions, portraying these unique individuals. In America we had...

 and Pierre François
, les 81 poèmes de Claude Garcia-Forner, Rayon Bleu