Albert Bitran French-Turkish, 1931-2018
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Overview
Albert Bitran, Albisola, Italy, 1967A painter and sculptor, Albert Bitran was a leading artist in the post-war art scene. Bitran’s work endeavoured to achieve a synthesis of elements of form from geometric abstraction and the lyrical palette of ‘warm’ abstraction. His work is associated with the Lyrical Abstraction movement. Of Turkish origin, the artist Albert Bitran also formed a link between the East and the West, between the culture of the Mediterranean and the artistic sensibilities of Northern Europe, where his work would be particularly appreciated.
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Works
Albert Bitran French-Turkish, 1931-2018
SANS TITRE - UNTITLED, 1983-84Huile sur toile - Oil on canvas61 x 50 cm - 24 x 19 11/16 in.Signé "Bitran" en bas à gauche
Signé et daté "Bitran 83-84" au dos sur la toile
Signed "Bitran" lower left
Signed and dated "Bitran 83-84" on the back of the canvasŒuvre incluse au Catalogue raisonné d'Albert Bitran (1931-2018) et enregistrée sous le numéro 1984-48Artwork included in the Catalogue Raisonné of Albert Bitran (1931-2018) and registered under number 1984-48
Œuvre incluse au Catalogue raisonné d'Albert Bitran (1931-2018) et enregistrée sous le numéro 1984-48Artwork included in the Catalogue Raisonné of Albert Bitran (1931-2018) and registered under number 1984-48
Exhibitions
À LA SOURCE, EXPOSITION INAUGURALE, Galerie Diane de Polignac, Paris, France, 25 septembre - 6 novembre 2026VideoExhibitions-
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ALBERT BITRAN, INTÉRIEUR – EXTÉRIEUR
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PublicationsBiography
Albert Bitran, Albisola, Italy, 1967EARLY LIFE AND ARTISTIC TRAINING
Albert Bitran was born in Istanbul on 25 December 1931. Of Sephardic Jewish origin, Bitran grew up surrounded by his family in the city’s commercial district of Pangaltı. With its narrow streets and arcades, the neighbourhood would greatly influence Bitran’s imagination when he became a painter. The young artist was also influenced by the sea, which is ever-present in the city of Istanbul. In the summer months, Bitran’s family rented a house on the Princes’ Islands off the coast of Istanbul. A polyglot, Albert Bitran spoke Turkish and French—studying at the Collège Saint-Michel, a French Jesuit school—as well as English and Ladino, a Romance language derived from Old Spanish spoken by Spanish Jews. Bitran’s linguistic fluency and his rich, multicultural upbringing would prove valuable for the artist as he developed his international career.
Bitran developed an interest in painting from the age of 15. At the Institut Français, the young artist consulted books and magazines featuring reproductions of paintings exhibited in Paris and copied paintings created by the masters—Cézanne, Boudin and Manet, among others—that he obtained in the form of postcards. Bitran’s efforts were a success—his first works were bought by the parents of his friends.
ARRIVAL IN PARIS: FRIENDSHIPS & ARTISTIC BEGINNINGS
After obtaining a double high school diploma in both French and Turkish, Albert Bitran left Istanbul for Paris to study architecture. Barely 17 years old, he arrived in September 1948 and settled in Montparnasse, the Parisian neighbourhood he had always dreamed of. Bitran immersed himself in the French capital’s vibrant post-war art scene, frequenting the renowned cafés La Coupole and Le Sélect, where he met other Turkish painters such as Mübin Orhon, Selim Turan and Avni Arbas, as well as Abidin Dino, his elder and dear friend, whom he met later on.
After Montparnasse, Albert Bitran moved to a studio in the American residence in Paris’ Cité Universitaire campus. His new residence was a real hub, bringing together artists from all over the world, including Jesús Rafael Soto from Venezuela, Serge Poliakoff from Russia, Georges Koskas from Tunisia, and Horia Damian from Romania. Koskas and Damian would have a definite influence on the geometric beginnings of Albert Bitran’s work. Bitran quickly abandoned architecture to devote himself exclusively to painting, attending exhibitions and regularly visiting the Musée du Louvre. The painter even passed very quickly through the studio of Fernand Léger. Bitran became close to Koskas and Damian, who were older than him, also visiting the artist couple Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szenes during this period.
EARLY SUCCESSES, DEALERS & PATRONS
Albert Bitran’s first successes came at the turn of the 1950s. Bitran’s work was exhibited in December 1950 as part of the Salon de l’Art Libre at the Palais des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris—the artist was just 19 years old. In the following year, he was introduced to the art dealer Jean-Robert Arnaud through Koskas. Arnaud had just opened his gallery on Rue du Four and was presenting the leading painters of the post-war abstraction movement. With a growing interest in the work of Albert Bitran, the dealer devoted two exhibitions to the artist in 1951 and 1952. Jean-Robert Arnaud also launched the art magazine Cimaise, in which Bitran’s works were featured.
It was at Arnaud’s gallery that the painter Albert Bitran met the collector Henri-Pierre Roché, who became a patron of the artist. Roché provided Bitran with accommodation and materials in exchange for his works. During this period, Albert Bitran continued to explore geometric abstraction on canvas and paper, using a mixture of watercolour and pencil. Doctor Velti, a friend of Roché’s, then bought a batch of ten works on paper from the artist. This was followed by an exhibition by Denise René, the “female pope” of geometric abstraction, who presented Albert Bitran in her Parisian gallery on Rue La Boétie in 1954 in a group show entitled Baertling, Breer, Bitran. Roché wrote the preface for the exhibition catalogue.
During this period, Bitran began to participate regularly in two Parisian art fairs: the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, which he took part in from 1952 to 1965, and the Salon de Mai, in which he participated every year without exception from 1956 to 1975. Accompanied by the painter Damian, Bitran travelled to the South of France in July 1955, notably to Saint-Paul-de-Vence. On his return to the French capital, Bitran began to paint abstract landscapes—such as Naissance d’un paysage—in oils with the addition of sand and discarded pieces of paper. The following year, the artist returned to the South of France with Mübin Orhon to continue his work. He also created the stained-glass windows for a church in Schœneck in France’s Moselle region. It was from this point onwards that Bitran abandoned his geometric explorations once and for all.
In the winter of 1955, the artist moved into the home of his friends Annie and Claude Lefort, where he had access to a large living room-studio space. In 1956, Bitran had another decisive encounter, this time with the dealer Jean Pollak, with whom he formed a strong friendship. Director of the Galerie Ariel in Paris, Pollak exhibited the artists of his generation that he supported, first on Avenue de Messine and later on Boulevard Haussmann. These artists included Roger-Edgar Gillet, Jacques Doucet, André Marfaing, Bengt Lindström and members of the Cobra group such as Asger Jorn, Karel Appel and Corneille. He also developed a fascination for the work of Albert Bitran, whom he exhibited and promoted regularly from 1957 onwards, both in solo and group exhibitions. In 1957, Albert Bitran met another important collector: the actress Jacqueline Delubac. Greatly interested in Bitran’s work, Delubac bought seven paintings from him, including Faune calcaire, which she hung next to a large nude from Picasso’s Blue period in her Paris salon. Delubac later commissioned two other paintings from the artist in 1986. In 1998, Jacqueline Delubac’s donation to the Musée des beaux-arts in Lyon gave rise to a major exhibition, De Manet à Bacon, la collection Jacqueline Delubac, which featured works by Albert Bitran.
ATELIER WORKS
Soon after obtaining French nationality, Albert Bitran married Claude Ledoux in January 1958. The couple went on to have two daughters: Hélène and Mariane. After a stay in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, they settled in Paris at 26, Rue des Plantes in the 14th arrondissement, an artists’
district. In their new home, Bitran continued to paint landscapes, but also began work on another series on the theme of the studio (atelier). Inspired by his new surroundings, his works on the theme of the Atelier were characterised by certain key elements such as the high skylight, the easel and its top clamp for holding the canvas from above—not forgetting the light flooding his paintings, for example in L’Atelier en pleine lumière. Albert Bitran argued that: “The rhythm is a journey of shadows.”
EARLY CERAMICS AND ENGRAVING WORK
In the early 1960s, the Bitran couple bought a large building in Rigny-le-Ferron in France’s Aube region to renovate. Part of the property was turned into a painting studio and the barn became a ceramics studio, equipped with a kiln. It was here that Bitran’s ceramic works were made with the help of his wife and their friends, the ceramist Vera Herold and Minouche Pastier. In 1967, Bitran made more ceramics in Albisola, Italy, with the artist Tullio Mazzotti. It was there that he met Wifredo Lam. Bitran’s ceramic works were then exhibited at the Galerie Birch in Copenhagen and at the Randers Museum in Denmark.
At around this time, the artist also began to collaborate with printers, in particular Fernand Mourlot—the Paris-based printer who worked on prints for Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall—and later the Bellini studio. Several illustrated books were produced, punctuated by Albert
Bitran’s engravings, such as L’Atelier by Georges Boudaille, which was published by Impriludes in 1964 and exhibited at the Galerie La Hune in Paris. Another example is Épreuves by Jean-Louis Baudry, which was published and presented by the Galerie La Balance in Brussels in 1966.
INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION AND FAME IN NORTHERN EUROPE
From the 1960s onwards, Albert Bitran’s work became very well known in Northern Europe in Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany, among other countries, where his work was regularly exhibited in galleries and museums. Bitran’s work was first shown in a group exhibition at the Lunds Konsthall in Sweden in 1960. Börge Birch, based in Copenhagen, was the primary dealer to promote Bitran’s work in Scandinavia from 1961 onwards. The Galerie Nord, a Danish gallery based in Randers, also promoted the artist’s work, and in the Netherlands, the Galerie Nova Spectra in The Hague also exhibited the painter, dedicating a solo exhibition to his work in 1964. In Amsterdam, the Galerie de Boer presented Bitran’s work from the 1970s onwards. In Cologne, the Galerie Johannes Schilling organised two solo exhibitions of the artist’s work in 1990 and 1993.
The Bitran couple also travelled regularly to Italy, driving down to Rome, where Albert Bitran shared the studio of the painter Marcello Avenali. There, Albert Bitran practised different techniques, including lithographs and serigraphs, also exploring various works on paper. He exhibited at the Studio Erre during various group exhibitions in the 1970s. In 1967, Bitran went to Cuba for the Salon de Mayo, at the invitation of Wifredo Lam. In Cuba, Bitran discovered a whole artistic and intellectual community, which included friends such as Cesare Peverelli, Corneille and Philippe Hiquily, among others. As the artist remembered, “We went on visits, we painted a little, we had a nice time.” Together the group created a collective work in situ.
In Paris in the 1960s, Albert Bitran lived at the heart of the art scene, rubbing shoulders with his neighbour Édouard Pignon, as well as Alfred Manessier, Gustave Singier and Pierre Soulages. He also formed a strong friendship with Geer van Velde, with whom he exhibited together at the Galerie de Boer in Amsterdam. In 1968, Albert Bitran left his home on Rue des Plantes and moved to Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, where he remained for the next 32 years. Bitran continued his artistic explorations in his new studio, his palette becoming bolder as the artist reflected upon the issue of space. From time to time, Bitran painted on large canvases which he then cut up and fixed on a frame, or he worked on paper which he laid onto the canvas himself.
NEW THEMES: DOUBLES AND GRANDES FORMES
In the 1970s, Albert Bitran tackled the theme of Doubles—a concept that brought together two interpretations of the same form in the same painting, inviting the viewer to consider each of the spaces created, both separately and as a whole. As such, reality and our perception of reality were presented on the same canvas. The artist’s Doubles were exhibited many times, both in Paris at the Galerie Ariel and abroad in Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Austria. In Amsterdam, the Galerie de Boer presented these works in a solo exhibition in 1974. The Doubles theme appealed to writers and philosophers such as Claude Lefort, who wrote Bitran ou la question de l’œil, which was published in 1975. This was the first phenomenological text devoted to painting.
Following the artist’s Doubles series came Sextuor. Conceived in 1976, the new work comprised six paintings designed to be presented in a closed circle. It went on to be exhibited in various museums, galleries and churches. The Sekset exhibition became a touring exhibition in Scandinavia, travelling from the Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum in Aalborg in 1978 to the Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Art Center in Oslo, and the Trondhjems Kunstforening in Norway in 1979. Sextuor was also exhibited at the Galerie de Boer in Amsterdam in the same year, as well as at the Church of St. Blaise in Salzburg, thanks to the curator Sigrun Loos. The work is now housed at Les Abattoirs in Toulouse.
Albert Bitran’s work entered a new institution in 1974 thanks to the collector Gildas Fardel’s donation to the Musée des beaux-arts in Nantes. During this period, the Bitran couple left their property in Rigny-le-Ferron and moved to another old building that they wanted to renovate in Gaillac, in France’s Lot region.
In the summer of 1979, Albert Bitran chaired the painting seminar of The Summer Academy in Salzburg, where he succeeded the artist Corneille. A great music lover, Bitran took full advantage of the immersive musical experience in Salzburg, attending many concerts during his stay. The artist renewed his position in Salzburg the following summer. Albert Bitran then developed a new theme in his Grandes Formes works, which featured a bold palette. First exhibited at the Galerie Louis Carré in Paris in 1987, these works were then presented in Tokyo and Los Angeles.
THE SCULPTOR ALBERT BITRAN
In parallel to his painting work, Albert Bitran also explored the third dimension through sculpting, which allowed him to transpose his painted forms into the world of volumes. He created small wooden sculptures, sometimes painted in grey, and larger works in various different materials. A large wooden sculpture by the artist measuring 3 metres was exhibited at the Basel Art Fair by the Galerie Louis Carré. During the 1990s, the artist was exhibited in a series of shows in France and abroad: in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy,
Turkey, Germany and Switzerland, among other countries. In 1991, during a retrospective dedicated to the Bitran’s work in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, an interview between the artist and the historian Jean Paris was recorded and later appeared in the Gulbenkian Foundation’s magazine Coloquio Arte in 1992. The same year, a second monograph on Albert Bitran’s work written by Georges Borgeaud was published by Ides et Calendes.
THE ARCADES
In the 1990s, Albert Bitran developed a fascination for a new form— that of the arcade. The squaring of the circle attracted him, reminding him of the arcades of the covered galleries in his native city, Istanbul. “There is always an open side where the arcade enters the painting and the painting enters the arcade,” said Albert Bitran. In 1997, Bitran went to Istanbul, where an exhibition was dedicated to his work at the Aksanat art centre. His friend, the art critic Necmi Sönmez, wrote the preface to the exhibition catalogue.
At the turn of the 2000s, Albert Bitran participated in several other group exhibitions in his native city, including the exhibition Paris: 1945- 1960. L’École de Paris et les peintres turcs [Paris: 1945-1960. The School of Paris and Turkish painters], which was presented at the Yapi Kredi Kâzim Taskent Sanat Galerisi in 2000. Several different exhibitions were also presented at the SantralIstanbul, including Modern and Beyond: 1950-2000 in 2007, Paris Turkish Abstract Painters in 2011, and Artists in Their Time in 2016. In 2011, Albert Bitran also participated in the exhibition Beyond the Apparent. A Selection from the Art Collection of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey at the Pera Museum in Istanbul.
Towards the end of the 1990s, Bitran sold his house in the Lot region of France and moved to Normandy, where he built a large studio filled with light. He also left his studio in Paris for Montrouge, a Parisian suburb where he set up a large studio in a former cinema. In this new studio, he created sculptures and large format paintings, such as the Arcades works, which he sometimes built in the form of triptychs.
LATER WORK: THE NOIRS & RETROUVER DEGAS
In the early 2000s, Albert Bitran was drawn to take a new direction in his artistic investigations. He was driven to explore the world of black, which gradually invaded his work, using oils, charcoal, Indian ink and gouache. These works were exhibited at the Galerie des Tuiliers in Lyon in 2012 under the title Érosion des noirs, with a text by Gérard-Georges Lemaire. In 2004, Claude Bitran and the art historian Clotilde Scordia began archiving Bitran’s body of work. This would form the basis of the artist’s Catalogue raisonné, which is currently being prepared by
the artist’s daughters Hélène de Panafieu and Mariane Bitran Spang-Hanssen, along with Clotilde Scordia.
In 2006, Albert Bitran participated in the exhibition L’Envolée lyrique. Paris 1945-1956. Presented at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, the exhibition brought the post-war Lyrical Abstraction movement back into the limelight.
In 2010, Bitran presented his works at the Grosvenor Gallery in London with the exhibition Obliques. The artist visited the city for the opening, and it was during this stay that he visited the Courtauld Gallery. In fact, Bitran’s puzzled son-in-law had told him that someone was imitating his work. Bitran figured out why when he discovered the painting La Dame au parasol [Lady with a Parasol] by Edgar Degas. Indeed, his whole range of artistic vocabulary could be found within the work, from the curves and verticals to the small round hole. The
painting’s colour palette is also similar to Bitran’s palette. The discovery gave him great satisfaction—Degas was one of the painters he most admired, along with Édouard Manet. Back in Montrouge, Bitran pursued this new direction in his work, isolating the elements, deconstructing and reconstructing the entirety of his compositions on large paper backgrounds and canvases. These works were later exhibited at the Galerie Convergences in Paris in 2017 under the title Affinités en noir majeur. Retrouver Degas.
The painter Albert Bitran died on 9 November 2018 in Paris. The following year, a new monograph on Albert Bitran was published by Éditions Liénart with the text Bitran ou la question de l’œil by Claude Lefort and a new text entitled La Traversée de la peinture by Jean-Luc Chalumeau, which retraced Albert Bitran’s career from Istanbul to Paris.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Austria
Salzbourg, Rupertinum - Museum der Moderne
Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts
Belgium
Brussels, Fondation Roi Baudoin
Cuba
Havana, Cuban State Collection
Denmark
Charlottenlund, Gentofte Radhus
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsbergfondet
Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst
Randers, Randers Kunstmuseum
France
Lyon, Musée des beaux-arts
Montpellier, Fonds régional d’art contemporain Occitanie
Nantes, Musée d’Arts
Paris La Défense, Fonds national d’art contemporain
Paris, Musée d’art moderne
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou
Perpignan, Musée d’art Hyacinthe-Rigaud
Saint-Dié, Musée municipal
Toulouse, Les Abattoirs
New Zealand
Wellington, National Art Gallery of New Zealand
Norway
Oslo, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter
The Netherlands
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum
Curaçao, Fondation Bloemhof
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum
Utrecht, Centraal Museum
United Kingdom
London, Contemporary Art Society
USA
Berkeley, CA, University Museum
Los Angeles, CA, Grunewald Foundation for Graphic Arts
Providence, RI, Museum of Rhode Island School of Design
San Francisco, CA, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Sweden
Lund, Lunds Konsthall
Switzerland
Geneva, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art
Türkiye
Istanbul, Istanbul Modern
Istanbul, Istanbul Resim ve Heykel Müzesi
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Salon de l’Art libre, Paris, France, 1950
Solo exhibitions, Galerie Arnaud, Paris, France, 1951, 1952
Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Palais des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris, 1951; Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris, Paris, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959; Musée municipal d’art moderne, Paris, 1960-1965
Primera Muestra Internacional de Arte Abstracto, group exhibition, Sala Cuatros Muros, Caracas, Venezuela, 1952
Mostra di Francesi e Italiani, group exhibition, Saletta Gissi, Turin, Italy, 1953
Pittori della Galleria Arnaud, group exhibition, Casa della Cultura, Livorno, Italy, 1953
Divergences, group exhibition, Galerie du Théâtre Babylone, Paris, France, 1953
Baertling, Breer, Bitran, group exhibition, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France, 1954
Évolution, group exhibition, Musée d’art moderne, Paris, France, 1955
Accrochage, group exhibition, Galerie Octobon, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1955
Bitran, Childs, Jorn, Quentin, Tabouchi, Van Haardt, Liberaki, Werthmann, group exhibition, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, France, 1956
Salon de Mai, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1956-1975; Centre culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1970; Galerie de l’Esplanade de la Défense, 1976, 1977
Comparaisons. Peinture. Sculpture, group exhibition, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France, 1956
Pintura de hoy, group exhibition, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, 1956
Maestri e giovanni pittori d’oggi, group exhibition, Galeria Apollinaire, Milan, Italy, 1956
Solo exhibitions, Galerie Ariel, Paris, France, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1966, 1975
Group exhibitions, Galerie Ariel, Paris, France, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1980 (Salon Comparaisons & FIAC), 1987, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2009
Group exhibition, Galerie Anne Abels, Cologne, Germany, 1957
Bulcke, Bitran, group exhibition, Galerie Les Contemporains, Brussels, Belgium, 1958
Group exhibition, Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, Netherlands, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1968
El arte abstracto en Europa, group exhibition, Museum of Cuba, Havana, Cuba, 1958
Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, 1958
20 peintres américains, 20 peintres français, group exhibition, American Center for Art and Culture, Paris, France, 1959
Peintres d’Aujourd’hui, group exhibition, Chapel of the former Hôpital de la Charité, Senlis, France, 1959
Group exhibitions, Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, France, 1959, 1960, 1963
Gothenburg Museum, Sweden, 1959
Paris 1959, group exhibition, Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, Sweden, 1959
Solo exhibition, Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York, NY, United States, 1960
The Margulies Collection, group exhibition, Art Council, London, United Kingdom, 1960
Group exhibition, Galerie La Roue, Paris, France, 1960
Group exhibition, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden, 1960
Solo exhibition, Galerie Birch, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1961
Reflets et images, group exhibition, Galerie de l’Ancienne Comédie, Paris, France, 1961
Group exhibition, Galerie K.B., Oslo, Norway, 1961
Collection Moltzau, group exhibition, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway, 1961
Group exhibition, Galerie Massol, Paris, France, 1962
Group exhibition, Galerie Cavalero, Vallauris, France, 1962
Aquarelles et gouaches de maîtres contemporains, group exhibition, Maison de la Pensée Française, Paris, France, 1962
École de Paris 1962, group exhibition, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France, 1962
École de Paris 1963, group exhibition, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France, 1963
L’Œil de bœuf, group exhibition, Galerie Cérès Franco, Paris, France, 1963
Sculptures de peintres, group exhibition, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France, 1963
L’Ombre et la lumière, group exhibition, Galerie Henriette Legendre, Paris, France, 1963
25 peintres de Paris, group exhibition, Handvermuset, Umeå, Sweden; Hallands Kunstforening, Sweden, 1963
Fremmed Kunst I Dans, group exhibition, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1964
Grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui, group exhibition, Musée d’art moderne, Paris, France, 1964
L’art et la révolution algérienne, group exhibition, Galerie de l’U.N.A.P. A.I, Algiers, Algeria,
1964
Solo exhibition, Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, Netherlands, 1964
Group exhibition based on the book L’Atelier, Galerie La Hune, Paris, France, 1964
Solo exhibition, Galerie Arta, The Hague, Netherlands, 1965
Le Paysage dans l’art français, group exhibition, Musée de Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France, 1965
Lybinka, Bitran, Mihaïlovitch, group exhibition, Handversmuset, Umeå, Sweden, 1965
Group exhibition based on the book Épreuves with Jean-Louis Baudry, Galerie La Balance, Brussels, Belgium, 1966
15 peintres de ma génération, group exhibition, Galerie L’Atelier, Toulouse, France, 1966
Group exhibitions, Galerie Françoise Ledoux, Paris, France, 1966, 1967
De Tolv, traveling group exhibition in Scandinavian museums, 1966
Peintures contemporaines, group exhibition, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France, 1966
Peintures de l’École de Paris, group exhibition, Galerie Dalles, Bordeaux, France, 1966
Group exhibitions, Galerie Birch, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983
L’Âge du jazz, group exhibition, Musée Galliera, Paris, France, 1967
Les Quatre éléments, group exhibition, Cimaise Bonaparte, Paris, France, 1967
Salon de Mayo, Salon de Mai, Havana, Cuba, 1967
L’Art pour la paix au Vietnam, group exhibition, Galerie Creuze, Paris, France, 1967
23 peintres de Paris, group exhibition, Seibu International, Tokyo, Japan, 1967
Exposition des marchands d’art, group exhibition, Galerie Louise, Brussels, Belgium, 1967
Collective canvas, Havana, Cuba, 1967
Group exhibition, Galerie La Bazarine, Paris, France, 1968
Asse, Bitran, Bryen, group exhibition, Musée des beaux-arts, Nantes, France, 1968
Première biennale de dessin, Musée d’art moderne, Rijeka, Croatia, 1968
Noir et blanc, group exhibition, Musée de la ville d’Ivry-sur-Seine, France, 1969
Kunsturstelling, group exhibition, Gentofte Town Hall, Gentofte, Denmark, 1969
Group exhibitions, Galerie La Pochade, Paris, France, 1969, 1970, 1985
25 ans de gravure, group exhibition, Galerie La Hune, Paris, France, 1969
Group exhibition, Galerie Stéphane Janssen, Brussels, Belgium, 1969
Group exhibitions, Studio Erre, Rome, Italy, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1977
Peintures, dessins et céramiques, group exhibition, Randers Museum, Randers, Denmark, 1970
3e Biennale des Arts plastiques, Gennevilliers, France, 1970
Présence européenne, group exhibition, Galerie Vercamer, Paris, France, 1970
L’Art dans l’architecture, group exhibition, Les Halles, Paris, France, 1970
Le Jardin de Matisse. Fête du Centenaire d’Henri Matisse, group exhibition, Salle des fêtes, Châtillon, France, 1970
Le Musée dans la rue, group exhibition, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France, 1971
Biennale de Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France, 1971
Présence européenne, group exhibition, Galleria La Bussola, Turin, Italy, 1971
Group exhibition, Institut national d’éducation populaire, Marly-le-Roi, France, 1971
Group exhibition, Galerie Lerche, Aalborg, Denmark, 1972
Hommage au peuple espagnol, group exhibition, Maison de la Culture, Vichy, France, 1972
Solo exhibitions, Galleria d’Arte La Lanterna, Trieste, Italy, 1972, 1978
Lithographies, group exhibition, Centre culturel juif, Paris, France, 1972
3e foire internationale d’art actuel, Bruges, Belgium, 1972
Group exhibition, Galerie l’Œil de bœuf, Paris, France, 1972
Beauvais Festival, France, 1972
Cent artistes du XXe siècle, group exhibition, Galerie La Hune and Galerie La Pochade, Paris, France, 1973
Pour Pablo Picasso, group exhibition, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France, 1973
Group exhibitions, Galerie de Boer, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1992, 1995
Group exhibition, Nouvelle Galerie Jacob, Paris, France, 1973
Group exhibition, Galerie Gilles Corbeil, Montreal, Canada, 1973
Group exhibition, Château du Tremblay, France, 1973
Group exhibition, Galleria Seno, Milan, Italy, 1974
Group exhibition, Galerie municipale, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 1974
Donation Gildas Fardel, group exhibition, Musée des beaux-arts, Nantes, France, 1974
Les Doubles, solo exhibition, Galerie de Boer, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1975
Group exhibition, Galerie Nord, Randers, Denmark, 1975
Albert Bitran, solo exhibition, Galerie Protée, Toulouse, France, 1975
Bitran ou la question de l’œil, book by Claude Lefort, solo exhibition, Galerie La Hune, Paris, France, 1975
Autour de Pierre Dmitrienko, group exhibition, Galerie 55, Paris, France, 1975
L’Art dans la ville, group exhibition, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 1975
Group exhibition, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1975
Contemporary French painting, group exhibition, National Art Gallery, Wellington,
New Zealand, 1975
Les Peintres de l’École de Paris, group exhibition, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1975
The Paris’ School, group exhibition, Main Gallery, Manila, Philippines, 1975
International Print Biennale, Kraków, Poland, 1975
65 peintres et sculpteurs témoignent leur amitié à Roger van Gindertael, group exhibition, Galerie Ariel and Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France, (FIAC), 1976
N.K.B, group exhibition, Singer Museum, Laren, Netherlands, 1976
Collection d’art abstrait, traveling group exhibition Musée des beaux-arts, Nantes; Musée des beaux-arts, Quimper; Musée d’art moderne André-Malraux, Le Havre, France, 1976
Bitran. Gravures, solo exhibition, Galerie Arta, The Hague, Netherlands, 1976
Group exhibition, Galerie Principe, Paris, France, 1977
Solo exhibitions, Galerie Nord, Randers, Denmark, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1986
Bitran. Dessins, solo exhibition, La Petite Galerie, Lyon, France, 1978
Sekset. Cycle de six tableaux pour un spectateur, solo exhibition, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark, 1978
Group exhibitions, Galerie Alain, Paris, France, 1978, 1982
Group exhibition, Galerie Arcadia, Paris, France, 1978
Group exhibition, Ariadne, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1978
L’Espace du temps, group exhibition, Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France, 1978
FIAC, Atelier Bellini, Paris, France, 1978
Salon de Montrouge, France, 1978
Les Huns, group exhibition, Fondation nationale des arts graphiques et plastiques, Paris, France, 1978
Sekset, solo exhibition, Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway, 1979
Graphiques, solo exhibition, New York, NY, United States, 1979
Sekstet, paintings, solo exhibition, Trondhjems Kunstforening, Norway, 1979
Gravures, solo exhibition, Atelier Bellini, FIAC, Paris, France, 1979
Sextuor, solo exhibition, Galerie de Boer, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1979
Bitran, solo exhibition, Traklhaus Museum, Salzburg, Austria, 1979
Hommage à Gustave Moreau, group exhibition, Salon de Montrouge, France, 1979
Peintres de l’abstraction lyrique à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, group exhibition, Mairie du 6e arrondissement, Paris, France, 1980
Sextet, solo exhibition, Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, Austria, 1980
Cent dessins d’aujourd’hui, group exhibition, Galerie municipale, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 1980
Bitran, Wash Art, Atelier Bellini, Washington, group exhibition, Union des Arts Plastiques, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France, 1980
Odense, group exhibition, Kunst Center, Denmark, 1981
Bitran. Peintures, dessins, graphiques, solo exhibition, Musée de Saint-Dié, France, 1981
Le Bronze, solo exhibition, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France, 1982
Bitran, gravures, solo exhibition, Palais des Congrès, Perpignan; Galerie Saint-Vicens, Perpignan, France, 1982
Bitran, solo exhibition, Centre Culturel des Prémontrés, Pont-à-Mousson, France, 1982
Albert Bitran, dessins, solo exhibition, Galleri Praestegaarden, Denmark, 1982
Bitran dans les collections danoises, solo exhibition, Randers Kunstmuseum, Denmark, 1982
Lithographies, group exhibition, Château de Blois, France, 1982
Bitran. Abidin, group exhibition, Galerie Praestegarden, Rubjerg, Denmark, 1982
Rétrospective de l’œuvre gravé, solo exhibition, Museum of Painting and Sculpture,
Istanbul, Turkey, 1983
Tendances de la peinture abstraite, group exhibition, Centre culturel de La Villedieu, France, 1983
Tendances de la peinture abstraite, group exhibition, Aubigny-sur-Nère, France, 1983
Les Tendances de l’art abstrait contemporain, group exhibition, Chapelle des Franciscains, Saint-Nazaire, France, 1983
Journée nationale des arts plastiques, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France, 1983
Aspects de la peinture contemporaine, group exhibition, MJC, Les Hauts de Belleville, Paris, France, 1984
Charles Estienne et l’art à Paris 1945-1966, group exhibition, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris, France, 1984
Tendances de la peinture abstraite contemporaine, group exhibition, Centre culturel, Sarcelles, France, 1984
VIIe Festival de poésie murale, Aubigny-sur-Nère, France, 1984
Les Années 60, group exhibition, Musée de Dunkerque; Espace des Cordeliers, Châteauroux; Chapelle des Franciscains, Saint-Nazaire, France, 1985
Maître des années 50, group exhibition, Galerie de Bellecour, Lyon, France, 1985
La Matière, group exhibition, Galerie CicalLefèvre, Paris, France, 1986
Albert Bitran, solo exhibition, Galerie Numaga, Auvernier, Switzerland, 1986
Support papier, traveling group exhibition organized by Action Artistique en Amérique du Sud, 1986
Udstillingsbygningen, group exhibition, Charlottenborg, Denmark, 1986
Support papier, group exhibition, French Library, Bucharest, Romania, 1987
10e festival de poésie murale, Château des Stuart, Aubigny-sur-Nère, France, 1987
Collages, papiers collés et reliefs, group exhibition, Espace Molière, Agde, France, 1987
Fransk-Norsk kunstutstilling, group exhibition, University of Trondheim, Norway, 1987
Solo exhibitions, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France, 1987, 1990, 1992
Bitran, solo exhibition, Galerie Brix, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1988
Bitran et les écrivains, solo exhibition, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1988
Abstraction expressions-confrontations, Galerie Bernard Davignon, group exhibition, Paris, France, 1988
Group exhibitions, Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany, 1988, 1994, 1997, 2000 (gallery & Art Cologne)
Salon de Mars, Paris, France, 1989
Solo exhibitions, Galerie Johannes Schilling, Cologne, Germany, 1990, 1993
Poètes en Sologne, group exhibition, Aubigny-sur-Nère, France, 1990
Art Jonction International, Nice, France, 1990
Propos d’artistes contre le racisme, group exhibition, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France, 1990
Albert Bitran, solo exhibition, Art Point Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1990
Albert Bitran. Rétrospective, solo exhibition, Hôtel Donadei de Campredon, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, 1991
Bitran. Dessins, solo exhibition, Galerie Annie Lagier, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, 1991
L’Homme aux semelles de vent, group exhibition, Théâtre de la Colline, Paris, France, 1991
Œuvres des années 60, group exhibition, Galerie Studio Kostel, Paris, France, 1991
Group exhibitions, Galerie Johannes Schilling, Cologne, Germany, 1983, 1992, 2001
Traverses du vent, group exhibition, L’Arbre voyageur, Paris, France, 1992
Solo exhibition, Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria, 1993
Rimbaud. Vingt peintres, vingt auteurs contemporains, group exhibition, Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, France, 1993
Albert Bitran. Peintures, dessins 1980-1992, solo exhibition, Maison des Arts Georges-Pompidou, Cajarc, France, 1993
Bitran, solo exhibition, Galerie Annie Lagier, Toulouse, France, 1993
Solo exhibition, Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 1993
Bitran. Gouaches et techniques mixtes, solo exhibition, Galerie Protée, Toulouse, France, 1993
Group exhibitions, Galerie Henry Bussière, Paris, France, 1994, 1996
Michel Bohbot, un itinéraire poétique, group exhibition, Médiathèque de Nice, France, 1994
Rimbaud…, group exhibition, Musée de l’Ardenne, Charleville-Mézières, France, 1994
Un Jury d’artistes, group exhibition, Musée de Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 1994
Autour d’une collection, le président et Madame Georges Pompidou, group exhibition, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, France, 1994
Group exhibitions, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France, 1995, 1999
Les Petits Formats de Maître Rey, group exhibition, Musée Rigaud, Perpignan, France, 1995
De l’Art d’Afrique moderne aux sources de la création, group exhibition, Sisteron, France, 1995
Carte blanche à Bernard Gouttenoire, group exhibition, Galerie Alice Chartier, Lyon, France, 1995
Éventails d’artistes contemporains, group exhibition, Espace Riquet, Béziers, France, 1996
Albert Bitran Sextuor, solo exhibition, Temple de Caussade, France, 1996
Group exhibitions, Galerie La Hune-Brenner, Paris, France, 1996, 1997
Von des Afrikanischen zur Modern Kunst, group exhibition, Galerie des Stadt, Tuttlingen, Germany, 1996
Saga, group exhibition, Espace Eiffel-Branly, Paris, France, 1996
Bitran, solo exhibition, Galerie Frahm, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1997
Albert Bitran, solo exhibition, Galerie Couleurs du temps, Geneva, Switzerland, 1997
Bitran, Ivackovic, Marfaing, group exhibition, Studio Kostel, Paris, France, 1997
Albert Bitran, Kemerler. Arcades, solo exhibition, Aksanat, Istanbul, Turkey, 1997
Albert Bitran, Kemerler, solo exhibition, Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey, 1997, 1998
Correspondances : l’art informel en France et en Allemagne, group exhibition, Château de Vaudrémont, Colombey-les-deux-Églises, France, 1998
Albert Bitran. Arcades, solo exhibition, Fondation Espace Ecureuil pour l’art contemporain, Toulouse, France, 1998
De Manet à Bacon, la collection Jacqueline Delubac, group exhibition, Musée des beaux-arts, Lyon, France, 1998
À vos souhaits : vœux d’artistes, group exhibition, Musée Pierre Noël, Saint-Dié, France,
1999
25 ans de collection d’art contemporain, group exhibition, SACEM, Paris, France, 1999
Galerie Louis Carré, histoire et actualité, group exhibition, Hôtel Donadeï de Campredon, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, 2000
Paris Okulu ve Türk Ressamlari. Paris: 1945-1960. L’École de Paris et les peintres turcs, group exhibition, Yapi Kredi Kâzim Taskent Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000
Îles insurgées, group exhibition, Librairie Nicaise, Paris, France, 2000
AREA Revues, group exhibitions, La Réserve, Paris, France, 2000, 2002
Supérieur inconnu, group exhibition, Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-Bains, France, 2001
50 ans de la Galerie Ariel, group exhibition, Galerie Ariel, Galerie Louis Carré, Galerie Thomas Le Guillou, Paris, France, 2002
Carnet de dessins, solo exhibition, Artcurial, Paris, France, 2003
La Main parle, solo exhibition, Hôtel Libéral-Bruant, Paris, France, 2004
Group exhibitions, Galerie Arnoux, Paris, France, 2004, 2007
Nâzim Hikmet Vakfi Sergisi, International Fair, Izmir, Turkey, 2004
50 ans de peinture en France. Une galerie - une collection, group exhibition, Musée Henri-Martin, Cahors; Musée Rignaud, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie; Musée Zadkine, Les Arques, France, 2005
Artistes du XXIe siècle, group exhibition, Galerie Guillaume, Paris, France, 2005
Splendeur des années 1950 et 1960, group exhibition, Johnson & Johnson, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 2005
L’Envolée lyrique. Paris 1945-1956, group exhibition, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France, 2006
Exposition d’été, group exhibition, Galleria Michelangelo, Bergamo, Italy, 2006
L’Action pensive, group exhibition, Musée de Gajac, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France, 2007
Tout n’est pas noir ou blanc, group exhibition, Espace Dasquié, Cahors, France, 2007
Regard de collectionneur, group exhibition, Musée des beaux-arts, Perpignan, France, 2007
Modern ve Ötesi: 1950-2000. Modern and beyond: 1950-2000, group exhibition, SantralIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007
Lecciones de Tinieblas, group exhibition, Academia 13, Mexico City, Mexico, 2007
Hommage à André Marfaing, group exhibition, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, 2007
Albert Bitran. 1955-2005, solo exhibition, Galeri Nev, Ankara, Turkey, 2008
Eller (Les Mains), solo exhibition, Institut Français, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008
Abstract selection, group exhibition, Bloemhof Landhuis, Curaçao, Netherlands, 2008
La Collection, group exhibition, Fondation Bloemhof, Curaçao, Netherlands, 2008
La Collection, group exhibition, Musée des beaux-arts, Perpignan; Musée des Abattoirs,
Toulouse, France, 2008
Le Noir absolu et la leçon des ténèbres, group exhibition, Villa Tamaris Centre d’Art, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France, 2009
Solo exhibitions, Grosvenor Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2010, 2011
L’École de Paris turque, group exhibition, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris, France, 2010
Le Gris : ouverture sur la couleur, group exhibition, Galerie 53, Paris, France, 2010
Kafka, group exhibition, Centre Culturel, Antony, France, 2010
Biennale Traces, Fort de Condé, Val de l’Aisne, France, 2010
L’École de Paris. Nejad Devrim et Albert Bitran, group exhibition, Galerie de l’Exil, Paris, France, 2010
Hommage à Patricia Rumfola, group exhibition, Église Saint-Etienne, Beaugency, France, 2010
Nano-poèmes. Avec Jean-Dominique Rey, solo exhibition, Le Pont Traversé, Paris, France, 2011
20 Modern Turkish Artists of the XXth Century. Öner Kocabeyolu Collection. École de Paris
Turkish Abstract Painters, group exhibition, SantralIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011
Suretin Sireti. Merkez Bankasi Sanat Koleksiyonundan Bir Seçki. Beyond the Apparent. A
selection from the Art Collection of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, group exhibition, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011
Solo exhibition, Galerie des Tuiliers, Lyon, France, 2012
Méandres, solo exhibition, Centre d’art contemporain Raymond Farbos, Mont-de-Marsan, France, 2013
Modernités plurielles, 1905-1970, group exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2013
Group exhibitions, Galerie des Tuiliers, Lyon, France, 2013 (gallery & Art Élysées), 2017
Le Noir absolu, group exhibition, Galerie Grand Eterna, Paris, France, 2013
Albert Bitran. Huiles sur papier, solo exhibition, Galerie Convergences, Paris, France, 2015
Artists in their time, group exhibition, SantralIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016
Regard sur Albert Bitran, solo exhibition, Elfebeen Mansion, Luxembourg, 2016
Le Geste et la Matière, group exhibition, Fondation Clément, Martinique, France, 2017
Turkish painting goes to Paris, group exhibition, Antalya Cultural Center, Antalya, Turkey, 2017
Selections, group exhibition, MKM Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017
Affinités en noir majeur, group exhibition, Galerie Convergences et Gratadou-Intuiti, Paris, France, 2017
Albert Bitran, solo exhibition, Galerie Bertrand Trocmez, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2019
BRAFA, Galerie Martel-Greiner, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
Deux Peintres, deux sculpteurs : Albert Bitran, Léon Zack, Étienne-Martin, François Stahly, group exhibition, Galerie Martel-Greiner, Paris, France, 2020
Istanbul-Montparnasse. Les Peintres turcs de l’École de Paris. Autour du livre de Clotilde Scordia, group exhibition, La Petite Galerie, Paris, France, 2021
Terre d’ombres Terre de Ciel, solo exhibition, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey, 2024
Albert Bitran, Intérieur - Extérieur, Galerie Diane de Polignac, Paris, France, May 21 - July 4, 2026
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Michel Seuphor, Dictionnaire de la peinture abstraite, Hazan, Paris, 1957
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