Michel Gigon


Michel Paul Marie Gigon was a French painter and stained-glass window designer.

Biography

Michel Paul Marie Gigon was born in Caen, Calvados on 11 September 1929. He began his artistic career in 1953. Gigon died in Le Coudray on 25 May 2022, at the age of 92.

Work

Gigon had many exhibitions in France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Poland. Many of its paintings are in private collections in France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain.

Michel Gigon's stained-glass windows in France

North of France

  • Pas-de-Calais Courset, Chapelle du foyer de charité
  • Pas-de-Calais Saint-Omer, Chapelle de la Malassise « Ecole »
  • Pas-de-Calais Wisques, Abbaye des Moniales « Eglise »
  • Nord Aulnoye, Eglise Saint-Eloi
  • Nord Haumont, Eglise Saint-Michel
  • Nord Mont-des-Cats, Eglise paroissiale

Paris area

In Normandy

  • Seine-Maritime Le Havre, CES Viviani, dalle de verre
  • Calvados Goustranville, Parish church
  • Manche Bricquebec, Abbaye Notre Dame de Grâce
  • Manche Canville la Roque, Eglise Saint Malo
  • Manche Cosqueville, Parish church
  • Manche Tamerville, Parish church

South of France

  • Lot Bovila, Parish church
  • Lot Rouillac, Parish church related to Montcuq
  • Lot Saint Geniez, Parish church related to Montcuq
  • Bouches-du-Rhône Aix-en-Provence, Chapelle du séminaire
  • Alpes-Maritimes Saint Honorat island, Lérins Abbey

About Michel Gigon

  • Monograph "Michel Gigon"
Jil Silberstein, preface from André Frossard.
  • Le vitrail français contemporain
Françoise Perrot - Centre international du vitrail - Chartres
Edition: L'oeil & la main - La manufacture
Diffusion LA MANUFACTURE 1984
Page 68
  • Le vitrail Contemporain "Comme un chant de lumière"
Jean-Marie Geron - Albert Moxhet
Edition: Dexia - La renaissance du livre
Collection Références
Pages 18, 146, 147
  • Revue: Exposition - Un siecle de vitrail en picardie
association
Monuments de picardie
April 1987
  • L'Homme nouveau - Number 1411 - December 22sd 2007
Pages 4, 5
Portrait "Un artiste déconcertant"
Geneviève Bayle