him painting it in primary colors. The house is small, with a main room, bedroom and kitchen, and a bathroom that can only be accessed from the outside. Gorin and his wife were naturists, and ate only vegetables from his garden. Although he made the house his base for the rest of his life, he also stayed in a house he owned in Meudon, and traveled extensively. Jean Gorin died on 29 March 1981 in Niort, Deux-Sèvres. His wife, Susan Gorin, died in 1995 and his property at Niort was put up for sale. Surprisingly, no effort was made to protect the house, the only one of his architectural projects to be realized. Work Style Gorin was the greatest French disciple of Mondrian, but pushed the principles of neoplasticism further than others by using reliefs, which developed into wall sculptures. He always used the primary colors of bright red, light yellow and ultramarine blue on white and black backgrounds. His polychrome sculptures were very unusual for the time. He broke from Mondrian's rule of allowing only horizontal and vertical lines. While remaining true to neoplasticist geometric rigor, he introduced circles and diagonals. The angles may be unexpected, far from 45°. Between 1958 and 1962 Gorin was absorbed in painting the contrast between the circle and the linear network. After that he returned to relief. His works were now truly three-dimensional, designed to retain harmony while viewed from different angles rather than as compositions seen only from the front. An example of later work is his Construction spatiale verticale n°101. It was made between 1968 and 1971 and is held in the French National Museum of Modern Art. A copy was made in 1983 under the direction of Serge Lemoine and is held by the University of Burgundy. The monumental sculpture is high and wide, made of carefully balanced geometric shapes of steel and aluminum painted in primary colors. Some of Gorin's works may be seen in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The Museum of Grenoble holds several hundred of his works. Exhibitions Exhibitions included: 1928, Lille: Neoplastic work with the STUCA group 1929–*1930: Exhibition with the Cercle et Carré group created by Michel Seuphor and Torrès-Garcia. 1930, Nantes: with the L’Etrave artistic group 1931, Paris: Display of his first relief in an exhibition of Groupe *1940 1945, Paris: Exposition Art concret, Galerie René