Michel Gigon

Michel Paul Marie Gigon (11 September 1929 – 25 May 2022) was a French painter and stained-glass window designer.

Biography
Michel Paul Marie Gigon was born in Caen, Calvados on 11 September 1929. He began his artistic career in 1953. Gigon died in Le Coudray on 25 May 2022, at the age of 92.

Work
Gigon had many exhibitions in France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Poland. Many of its paintings are in private collections in France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain.
 * Caen museum one painting.
 * Rennes museum severals drawings.
 * Arts et Lettres management of Paris one drawing.
 * Kłodzko museum (Poland) one painting.
 * CES Marcel Proust school at Illiers-Combray (Eure-et-Loir) one painting.
 * Saint Germain l’Auxerois church Paris, one painting.

North of France

 * Pas-de-Calais Courset, Chapelle du foyer de charité
 * Pas-de-Calais Saint-Omer, Chapelle de la Malassise « Ecole »
 * Pas-de-Calais Wisques, Abbaye des Moniales « Eglise »
 * Nord Aulnoye, Eglise Saint-Eloi
 * Nord Haumont, Eglise Saint-Michel
 * Nord Mont-des-Cats, Eglise paroissiale

Paris area

 * Yvelines Andrésy, Parish church
 * Yvelines Bois d’Arcy, Parish church
 * Aisne Château-Thierry, Saint-Crépin church
 * Val d'Oise Hodent near Magny-en-Vexin, stained-glass windows for an old monastic farm

In Normandy

 * Seine-Maritime Le Havre, CES Viviani, dalle de verre
 * Calvados Goustranville, Parish church
 * Manche Bricquebec, Abbaye Notre Dame de Grâce
 * Manche Canville la Roque, Eglise Saint Malo (to see painting « Transfiguration »)
 * Manche Cosqueville, Parish church
 * Manche Tamerville, Parish church

South of France

 * Lot Bovila, Parish church
 * Lot Rouillac, Parish church related to Montcuq
 * Lot Saint Geniez, Parish church related to Montcuq
 * Bouches-du-Rhône Aix-en-Provence, Chapelle du séminaire
 * Alpes-Maritimes Saint Honorat island, Lérins Abbey

About Michel Gigon
Jil Silberstein, preface from André Frossard (1980). Françoise Perrot - Centre international du vitrail - Chartres Edition: L'oeil & la main - La manufacture ISBN 2-904638-17-2 Diffusion LA MANUFACTURE 1984 Page 68 Jean-Marie Geron - Albert Moxhet Edition: Dexia - La renaissance du livre ISBN 2-8046-0557-4 Collection Références Pages 18, 146, 147 association Monuments de picardie April 1987 Pages 4, 5 Portrait "Un artiste déconcertant" Geneviève Bayle
 * Monograph "Michel Gigon"
 * Le vitrail français contemporain
 * Le vitrail Contemporain "Comme un chant de lumière"
 * Revue: Exposition - Un siecle de vitrail en picardie
 * L'Homme nouveau - Number 1411 - December 22sd 2007