Collette Allendy
Colette Allendy (1895–1960) was a French gallerist, critic, and important supporter of the postwar Parisian avant garde. In 1946 she founded the Galerie Colette Allendy at 67 rue de l’Assomption in Paris, which quickly became a significant platform for experimental and nonfigurative art during the reconstruction years following the Second World War.
Her gallery exhibited artists associated with abstraction lyrique, Tachisme, geometric abstraction, and emerging forms of conceptual and kinetic experimentation, including figures such as Yves Klein, Jean Arp, Victor Vasarely, and Pierre Soulages. Allendy was also deeply engaged with contemporary philosophy and psychology, especially the ideas of Gaston Bachelard and Carl Jung, and sought to position the gallery as an intellectual as well as artistic space within postwar Paris.
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