Personal & collective exhibitions
Personal exhibition
1936 Rabat – Maroc (Mammounia)
1947 Galerie Chardin – 36 rue de Seine – Paris – (30 paintings)
1949 Galerie Chardin – Paris (24 paintings)
1950 Galerie Malaval – Lyon
1954 Galerie Chardin – Paris (20 paintings and drawings, pastels, lithographs)
1956 Marlborough Gallery, 17, Old Bond Street, London
1958 Chardin Gallery – Paris
1962 Chardin Gallery – Paris
1962 Malaval Gallery – Lyon
1963 Palm Beach Galleries – Floride – USA
1969 Chardin Gallery – Paris (28 paintings & pastels and illustrations)
1971 Jean-Louis Guerrin Gallery -Versailles
1973 Palais de la Méditerranée – Nice (rétrospective – 150 paintings)
1978 Musée Municipal d’Art figuratif (municipal museum of figurative art) – Fontainebleau (34 paintings and drawings, illustrations, lithographs)
1980 Chardin Gallery – Paris (drawings and sketches)
Since the creation of the Lucien Fontanarosa Foundation in 1985 :
1986 Galerie des Glaces – Salle Pleyel – Paris (la musique)
1986 Chardin Gallery – Paris
1987 Salon de la Société Nationale des beaux-arts (fine arts national society’s exhibition) – Grand Palais – Paris (“The Mediterranean“)
1988 Galerie des Glaces – Salle Pleyel – Paris (Venise)
1988 La Closerie des Lilas – Paris (drawings and pastels)
1989
Francis Barlier Gallery – Paris (La femme – 40 paintings)
City hall of the 17th district in Paris (drawings, pastels and gouaches – 140 works on paper)
Galerie des Glaces – Salle Pleyel – Paris (“Childhood”)
Espace Jean de Joigny – Joigny (“Music”)
1991 Sarlat la Canéda en Dordogne (rétrospective – 50 paintings and 50 watercolours) and Porto-Vecchio – Bastion de France (50 paintings and drawings)
1993 Bernheim-Jeune – Paris (57 oil paintings and works on paper)
1997
Arles – salle Henri Comte (lithographs)
Sully sur Loire – Château (18 paintings)
2001
Bernheim-Jeune Gallery – Paris (60 oil paintings and works on paper)
Saint-Jean Castle Museum – Nogent le Rotrou (4 decorations and 50 illustrations and lithographs)
2002 Menton, French Riviera – Palais Carnolès ( retrospective – 55 oils on canvas and 15 lithographs)
Langeais Castle, Loire Valley, France – Institut de France
( “Lucien Fontanarosa, illustrator of the medieval epics” 40 illustrations for the Epic Poems)
Espace Jean de Joigny, Joigny, Burgundy, France ( “Lucien Fontanarosa and Childhood” 32 oils on canvas and works on paper, 14 lithographs, illustrated art books and pocket books’ covers)
Collective exhibitions
1931 The Archipel Gallery – Paris (with Mané Katz and Oguiss)
1935 Galerie Carmine – rue de Seine, Paris
exhibition of the “Grande Masse de l’Ecole des Beaux-arts” (” Le Pont Royal “, cf. French State purchases)
1935 Cinquième Salon des Beaux-Arts et des Arts décoratifs (5th Exhibition of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts) – Asnières – (5 paintings)
1938 Musée de l’Orangerie – Paris – (10 paintings)
1941 Théâtre Pigalle – Paris (with Boquillon, Brayer, Gérôme, Lagriffoul)
1942 Galerie Pigalle (with Faucq, Grau-Sala,…)
Musée Galliera – Paris , on the theme ” Paris and its region seen by some contemporary painters ” – ” Les Tuileries sous la neige “
Galerie Contemporaine – Paris , on the theme ” Terre et Eglises de France / Land and Churches from France ” (with Brayer, Lhote, Van Dongen, …)
1943 Galerie Chardin – Paris (with Chapelain-Midy, Corbellini,…)
1944 Exhibition of French Art – Luxembourg
1946
Cantini museum – Marseille – 21 au 30 juin
Exposition du livre moderne illustré
1949 Pavillon de Marsan
1951 Biennal Event of the City of Menton
1952 Exhibition of French Art – Poland
1956-1957 Painting Festival in Vichy
1963
Chardin Gallery – Paris (10 paintings for the exhibition “Joie de Vivre”)
Munich Museum – Germany (7 paintings)
Roger Dulac Gallery – Paris (exhibition “Art and Medicine”)
1964
Palais de la Méditerranée – Nice (with Carzou, Brayer, Cavaillès, Goerg, Limouse)
Chardin Gallery – Paris (10 pastels for the exhibition “Water and Fire”)
1966
Osaka – Japon
Taverny – Dixième Salon des Arts (10th Exhibition of Arts)
1968
Printemps departement stores – Paris
‘Au Souffle de Paris’ Gallery – Saint Louis (Haut Rhin)
1969 Museum of Picardie – Amiens
1970 Chardin Gallery – Paris (“Summer Fruits”)
1972 Verrière Gallery – Lyon (with Volti)
1973 Chardin Gallery – Paris (“Climates and Lights”)
1974-75 Salon de la Marine (guest of honnor)
1975 Cadror Gallery – Bern, Switzerland (lithographs) with Volti
1976 Montélimar painting exhibition (with Brayer, Berthommé Saint-André…)
1976 Barbizon (with Volti)
Since the creation of the Lucien Fontanarosa Foundation in 1985 :
1991 Saint-Hubert Gallery – Lyon
1995 Espace Pierre Cardin – Paris (Institut de France)
1998 Townhall of 6th district of Paris – “Familles d’artistes” (“Families of artists”) with Georges Arditi, Edouard Mac’Avoy, Pio Santini
Shows
1932 to 1947 Société Nationale des Beaux Arts – Grand Palais – Paris and 1977 (tribute : 36 works)
1933 « Le repos du modèle » ( or « Nu dans l’atelier »)
1934 « Le Concert espagnol » (Quatuor with guitars, concertina)
1935 « Fin de séance » (Nude)
1936 « Le cheval marocain »
1938 4 oils on canvas including « Les amies »
1939 several works (still-lifes, landscapes,…) including « L’homme en blanc »
1940 (Palais de Chaillot) « Le battage du blé en Italie »
1941 two landscapes and « Le brabant » (cf. French State purchases, Caisse nationale de crédit agricole)
1942 (Palais de Tokyo) : « Les chevaux » (cf. French State purchases, Town-hall of Château-Gontier)
1943 landscapes and « le concert »
1939
Exhibition of mobilized painters
Villa Medici – Rome
1941 and 1942 Salon des moins de trente ans – Galerie de la Renaissance, rue Royale Paris
1957
Salon des Tuileries
Salon Comparaisons
1972
Salon de Rouen (with Paul-René Gauguin, Claude Schurr…)
1974 – 75
Salon de la Marine
Until 1975 Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’eau (exhibition of drawings and watercolours), and in 1986 : a tribute : 50 drawings and watercolours
1953 Salon des Peintres Témoins de leur Temps (‘Painters as Witnesses of their Time’), at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (modern art museum of the City of Paris), and from 1955 to 1975. at the Galliera Museum – Paris. Themes :
1953 “Sundays” (Le retour de la chasse)
1955 “Happiness” (L’été)
1956 “The portrait” (L’artiste dans sa loge – portrait d’Albert Rémy)
1957 “Sport” (Le boxeur)
1958 “Paris Women” (Le dimanche au bord de la Marne)
1959 “The Mechanical Era” (Le chantier)
1960 “Youth” (Le trio)
1961 “French treasures” (Vendanges en Provence)
1962 “Roads and Paths” (Le pont de l’autoroute de Marseille)
1963 “Events” (Sauvetage)
1964 “Love” (L’amour)
1965 “Bread and Wine” (La moisson)
1966 “French people” (Marius Bonafay, pêcheur varois or Le pêcheur)
1967 “Songs” (Chanson de Ronsard)
1968 “1967” (Les guerilleros)
1969 “Art and Work” (La répétition)
1970 “Dreams” (Portrait d’Annette)
1971 “European treasures” (Venise – La Salute vue de la Piazzetta and the exhibition poster)
1972 “The figurative Man” (Vendangeuses dans les paluns)
1973 “Life of Inanimate Things” (Le luthier)
1974 “The Street” (Les amoureux dans la ville)
1975 “As you like it” (Dominique aux melons d’eau)
1997 1997 Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (fine arts national society) : a tribute, 36 paintings
Since the creation of the Lucien Fontanarosa Foundation in 1985 :
1990 and 1994 Salon de l’Ecole Polytechnique – Palaiseau
1995 and 1998 Salon d’Angers