Michel Humair is a painter of the New School of Paris, born in the Swiss Jura in 1926, settled in France in 1947 and died in 2019. He described his approach as "Impressionism of lyrical abstraction". Lydia Harambourg wrote in La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot: "Humair belongs to the second generation of an abstraction that privileges gesture and movement underlying a fervent emotion (...). This one passes by the colors and the contrasts, by the forms and by a sensual matter of which he exploits the expressive richnesses to the service of what he wants to translate: the truth of his landscape".