Galerie Collette Allendy
From 1946 until her death in 1960, Colette Allendy directed the Galerie Colette Allendy at 67 rue de l’Assomption in Paris, an intimate “house gallery” integrated into her own residence and dedicated to the promotion of experimental abstraction in the postwar period. Alongside figures such as Denise René, she became one of the key women gallerists supporting nonfigurative art in France, providing emerging artists with an important platform at a moment when abstraction was still being defined and contested. Born into an artistic family and trained as an artist herself, notably through her association with Juan Gris, Allendy initially exhibited established artists connected to Cubism and post Cubist practices, including Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Francis Picabia, and Albert Gleizes, before increasingly championing younger artists exploring new forms of abstraction.
Exhibitions & Events
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HWPSMTB
(featuring Hans Hartung, Wols, Picabia, François Stahly, Georges Mathieu, Michel Tapié, and Camille Bryen) -
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De l’expressionnisme à l’abstrait
Women artists group show, which included Christine Boumeester, Berthe Morisot, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp -
Tapisseries et broderies abstraites
Women artists group show presenting abstract textiles realized by Taeuber-Arp, Sonia Delaunay, Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss, and Hélène Oettingen -
CoBrA group
(featuring Karel Appel, Constant, and Corneille) -
Propositions monochromes
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Optical paintings
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