“Michel Puy, Critical Sentinel of the Early 20th Century” is the title of the reference work recently published by Archives Michel Puy editions, by Hervé Labrid, grand-nephew of Jean and Michel Puy, the result of significant research based on a substantial collection of family archives.
Michel Puy and his partner Marthe, Roman Forum, 1908. © Les Archives Michel Puy, 2026
Michel Puy (1878-1960) was a poet, essayist, art critic, literary critic, and magazine director. He moved within Parisian intellectual and artistic circles, engaging with the journals that accompanied new creative trends. In 1907, in the journal La Phalange, he published a study dedicated to the Fauves. He was one of the first to understand that the research of painters like Henri Matisse and his close associates, including his elder brother, did not constitute a mere succession of individual audacities, but rather manifested the emergence of a new aesthetic.
The more than 400-page work contextualizes the critical, literary, and editorial activity of Jean Puy’s elder brother.
Particularly useful for delving deeper into the reception of artistic movements from the late 11th and early 20th centuries in Paris and elsewhere, we strongly advise you to obtain “Michel Puy, Critical Sentinel of the Early 20th Century”
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