It was beautiful, Monday, 23 September, on the cemetery of Bagneux, on the outskirts of the jewish section, where the stelae, tight as naufragées, covered fateful dates, are deeply moving for their direct links with the history cruel of the Twentieth century. Sam Szafran is now, him that is born in Paris under the name of Samuel Berger, on November 19, 1934, and who died under his artist name, in the heart of his workshop at Malakoff on September 14, 2019.

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In memory of this painter-buried in an explorer in the jungle of his workshop, some 250 leaves of philodendrons, lustrous and green, tenacious, ordered by Moulié in the netherlands, and of which each has inherited, as a palm.

Like just, leaves glossy of philodendron in the place of white roses. VD / Le Figaro

All of his friends, and they were as numerous as sincere, were there for this ultimate tribute, under the sky of Ile-de-France, which intended to repair a certain form of forgetting.

art historians such as Jean-Louis Prat, historical figure of the Maeght Foundation in its most …

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