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Paul Bilhaud (31 December 1854 – 8 January 1933) was a French playwright and librettist. An old friend of the author Alphonse Allais , he is remembered along his friend as a forerunner of minimalism with his painting Combat de nègres pendant la nuit ("(Battle of negroes during the night"), displayed for the first time in 1882, more than ...
At these, inspired by his friend Paul Bilhaud's 1882 exhibit of an entirely black painting entitled "Negroes fight in a tunnel" (which he later reproduced with a slightly different title), Allais exhibited arguably some of the earliest examples of monochrome painting.
Paul Bilhaud (Allichamps, December 31, 1854 - Avon, 1933) was a French poet and dramatist who belonged to the French avant-garde group the Incoherents. He is the author of an all-black painting called Combat de nègres dans un tunnel.
In October 1882, the poet Paul Bilhaud (1854–1933) exhibited a painting of a black square entitled A Battle of Negroes at Night (Combat de nègres pendant la nuit) at the first “Salon of Untethered Art,” of which he himself was the founder, in the Masonic artistic tavern The Black Cat in Paris.
May 21, 2024 · Among them is Paul Bilhaud’s dazzling Combat de nègres pendant la nuit [Negro fight in the night], the first monochrome painting presented as part of a public exhibition, which instantly becomes part of the myth. The event is noteworthy and has international resonance.
Combat de nègres pendant la nuit est une œuvre monochrome de l'écrivain Paul Bilhaud (1854-1933) présentée pour la première fois au public le 1 er octobre 1882 dans le cadre de l'exposition des Arts incohérents. Selon certains critiques, elle serait le premier monochrome de l'histoire de l'art [1].
Negroes Fighting in a Tunnel at Night (1882, original French title: Combat de nègres dans un tunnel) is an all-black painting by poet Paul Bilhaud. It introduced the monochrome painting to art.
