Henri Cadiou

Who was Henri Cadiou?

Henri Cadiou was a French realist painter and lithographer known for his work in trompe-l'oeil paintings. He is credited with being a founder of the l’école de la réalité in 1949. He was also president of the Association for the Protection of the Cité Fleurie, a wooded area around the boulevard Arago in Paris's 13th arrondissement where about thirty artist’s studios are located.

Because of renewed interest in precursors to contemporary hyperrealism, the group of painters associated with the “peintres de la réalité” are seeing a contemporary resurgence and have been exhibiting now for about fifty years in the Salons as well as in personal or collective shows as well as in Europe, Asia, North America, Canada, Brazil, etc.