Michel Tapié, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michel Tapié

French painter

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1909

Place of Birth: Senouillac, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 30-Jul-1987

Profession: musician, painter, sculptor, art critic

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Michel Tapié (Michel Tapié de Céleyran; 26 February 1909 – 30 July 1987) was a French art critic, curator, and collector.
He was an early and influential theorist and practitioner of "tachisme", a French style of abstract painting popular in the 1940s and 1950s which is regarded as a European version of abstract expressionism.Tapié was a founder member of the Compagnie de l'Art Brut with Dubuffet and Breton In 1948, as well he managed the Foyer De l'Art Brut at the Galerie René Drouin.Tapié was from an aristocratic French family and was a second cousin once removed of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
The painter's mother Adèle Tapié de Celeyran was Tapié's great-aunt.