The Estate of Gérard Schneider
"Opus 8 K" was created during the decade known as "les années lumière” (the light years). Schneider's work during this period was luminous, and his reputation was growing, gaining international recognition. Critics unanimously considered Schneider to be one of France's greatest painters.
He finally achieved the synthesis of form and color to which he had always aspired.
Schneider painted sweeping works, his broad brushwork emphasizing their expressive monumentality; on vast expanses of solid color (often blue, as in "Opus 8 K"), single-hued forms collided.
This new form of expression emerged when he began using acrylics, which are more liquid, limpid, and dry faster. His color palette became lighter and brighter, favoring purples, jade greens, and saffron yellows.
- Rhapsody in Blue, 27 October - 22 December 2023, Perrotin New York, USA
- Gérard Schneider, une rétrospective, 28th February - 2nd June 2013, Musée des beaux-arts, Orléans, France
- Schneider - La métamorphose du lyrisme. Parcours 1916-1986, 28th April - 16th September 2007, Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Mantes-la-Jolie, France
- Schneider - Rétrospective, 26th May - 26th August 2001, Musée de la Cour d'Or, Metz, France
- Schneider, rétrospective, 8th November 1998 - 10th January 1999, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- 36e Salon de Mai, 1980, Centre d’art, rue du Louvre, Paris, France
- L'abstraction, présence et permanence, 6th-22nd July 1979, Abbaye de Lunan, Toulouse, France
- Schneider, 12th December 1978 - 21st January 1979, Salle Robert Desnos, Ris-Orangis, France
- Gérard Schneider, huiles, 11th-31st October 1974, Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture Les Hauts de Belleville, Paris, France
- Gérard Schneider, peintures et gouaches récentes, 25th August - 25th September 1972, Galerie Cavalero, Cannes, France
- Gérard Xuriguera; Georges Boudaille, Schneider, Paris, Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture Les Hauts de Belleville, 11th–31st October 1974, illustrated
- Schneider, supp. au Fard des Argonautes, November/December 1978, Ris-Orangis, S.M.V., 1978, illustrated
- L'abstraction, présence et permanence, 1979, illustrated
- Salon de Mai, Paris, Association du Salon de Mai, 1980, illustrated p. 30
- Jean Orizet, Schneider Peintures, Paris, La différence / l'autre musée, 1984, p. 55
- France Huser, Gérard Schneider, l'orage des couleurs, Le nouvel observateur, n°1448, 1992, illustrated in colour p. 79
- Michel Ragon, Schneider, Angers, Expressions contemporaines, 1998, illustrated in colour p. 159