Jean Cortot

Jean Cortot ( , ; 14 February 1925 – 28 December 2018) was a French painter, poet and illustrator, known particularly for his exploration of the links between painting and writing.

Biography Cortot was born in Alexandria, Egypt, the son of the pianist Alfred Cortot. A student of Othon Friesz, Corton was part of the Scale group which he established with Jacques Busse, Calmettes, Patrix, Geneviève Asse and others. In 1948 Cortot was awarded the "Prix de la Jeune Peinture".

Cortot was elected member of the French Academy of Fine Arts on 26 November 2001. (Over 100 of Cortot's paintings were lost in a warehouse fire in Paris in the 1990s.)