Sam Szafran (1934-2019) occupies a very singular place in the history of art in the second half of the 20th century. He has dedicated his work to a figurative and poetic-iconic approach to reality that he has developed far from the art world and its fads, in the seclusion of the studio. A particularly difficult childhood, marked by the disasters of World War II in a family of Jewish-Polish origin, led him to prefer...