“A new gallery: a cellar at the back of an antique dealer’s shop, to be more precise: the Cimaise Bonaparte. You mustn’t let yourself be easily influenced. We see so many mediocre works hung on gold nails on moire hangings that these days it’s more likely to be on leprous walls. It’s a charming room, and what you see here is enough to encourage you to visit the basement, coming down the stairs of a vertiginous staircase.
Seven artists, two women and five men, make up this core group that we will be seeing again in the same gallery.

Some of them are already well known, such as the Japanese artist Ado and his symbols of uncompromising purity, the Vietnamese artist Hamisky, and the Yugoslav artist Ivackovic, who stood out at the last Paris Biennial for his bold black graphics. The Japanese artist Saka deserves to be better known; he is a poet who does not deny his country.

Laksine is a vigorous and expressive painter, while Jampeler is a poet and colourist. The revelation for me is Michel Tyszblat, a painter with a refined style who truly masters the art of painting, a poet whose approach might at first seem hesitant but whose immense potential is easy to see.
Georges Boudaille, Les Lettres française – 5 May, 1966