Gérard Schlosser is a French artist, a pioneer of narrative figuration. A student at the School of Applied Arts in Paris, he studied goldsmithing there and at the same time learned sculpture as an autodidact. After a stint at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he decided to devote himself definitively to painting in 1953.

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Gérard Schlosser's work is figurative: fragments of bodies painted in flat areas dress his canvases. He surrounds them in black in order to better juxtapose his pictorial collages. This practice has led him to be often associated with Pop Art.

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The artist greatly appreciates Samuel Beckett's work, whose inspiration is found in its titles: he imbues the playwright with sentences in order to provide his canvases with a narrative framework.

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The artist became a member of the Salon de la Jeune Peinture in 1973. He exhibited from 1980 in France, at the Château de Ratilly, in Seoul, Los Angeles or in Réunion. A retrospective was dedicated to him at the Synodal Palace in Sens and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Dole in 2013. A book-art object published by In-Fine, “De-ci, de-là, dessins”, brings together a set of drawings spanning his entire career.