Henri Cadiou (March 26, 1906, Paris – April 6, 1989) was a 20th-century French realist painter and lithographer, best known for his work in trompe-l'œil painting.
His trompe-l'œil paintings feature large groups of everyday objects depicted in a realistic style.
[1] He is credited with being a founder, in 1949, of the Mouvement Trompe-l'œil-réalité,[2] a group which originally called itself the "Peintres de la Réalité."
The paintings Cadiou exhibited at the Salon de Mai of 1960, Shower Curtain and Electoral Panel in particular, caused a stir in the artistic community.
[3] Formed already in 1949 as a general reaction against abstract art, the Mouvement Trompe-l'œil-réalité gained greater visibility as a result of this 1960 exhibition.