Background
Jean Pierre Capron was born in Cannes, France, August 4, 1921.
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Jean Capron
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He studied architecture in Lausanne, Switzerland, then moved to Paris in 1945 where he enrolled at the École des Beaux Arts in the studio of Eugène Narbonne and formed a friendship with Bernard Buffet.
Career
Early life and education
He exhibited for the first time at the Salon d"Automne in 1949 and participated in several important salons and group shows in France and abroad. In 1950 Jean-Pierre Capron had his first exhibition in Paris in Maurice Garnier, Visconti Gallery. (Gallery Drouant-David, then Drouant Gallery).
In 1961 he had his first exhibition in the United States of America at the Pomeroy Gallery in San Francisco. he also had a major 1965 exhibit in Chicago and a 1966 exhibit in New York at the Frank Partridge Gallery.
Death and afterward
Capron died in 1997, leaving a substantial legacy of landscape paintings and several portraits. His work is in the permanent collections of the Musee d’Art Moderne, the Musee de la Ville de Paris and the Musee de Poitiers.
Achievements
Membership
He was a member of the jury of the Salon de la Jeune Peinture from 1951 to 1968.
