Jeune Création

Jeune Création is the successor of Jeune Peinture, created in 1949 by Paul Rebeyrolle. Since 1950, this fair offers possibilities that answer to the lack of exhibition spaces open to young artists and is an alternative to the mainstream art market and to public institutions.

Between the cultural circuit dominated by the communist party, the growing number of commercial galleries and the elitist Parisian fairs showing mainly abstract art, a space for young figurative painters is missing. Indeed, a debate dominates the art world at the time on the question of figuration or of abstraction in paint...