Edouard Pignon

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Picasso at the opening of the Soshana exhibition in 1962 with the artist, André Verdet and Édouard Pignon (right) in the Château Grimaldi, renamed the Musée Picasso d'Antibes from 1966

Édouard Pignon (born February 12, 1905 in Bully-les-Mines near Arras , Pas-de-Calais , † May 14, 1993 in La Couture-Boussey ) was a French painter .

life and work

Édouard Pignon spent his childhood and youth in Marles-les-Mines until 1927. His initial training and professional activity was that of a miner. Pignon acquired his artistic training in courses at evening schools. He was a member of the Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires AEAR. Pignon's painting is strongly influenced by the artistic work of Pablo Picasso . At the same time, his imagery is in the tradition of Expressionism . Édouard Pignon maintained his studio in Paris for many years.

Important exhibitions

  • 1932 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
  • 1933 Billiet Gallery, Paris
  • 1937 Salon du Temps Présent, Galerie Durand Ruel
  • 1946 solo exhibition in Brussels
  • 1946 XXIV Venice Biennale
  • 1949 solo exhibition in Paris
  • 1955 participant in documenta 1 in Kassel
  • 1958 Venice Biennale, French Pavilion
  • 1959 participant in documenta II in Kassel
  • 1960 Metz Museum
  • 1961 Solo exhibitions in New York , Amsterdam , Museo di Lucerna, Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris
  • 1964 participant in documenta III in Kassel
  • 1970 Galleria del Milione, Milan
  • 1972 Galleria del Girasole, Udine ; Galleria Ravagnan, Venice; Galleria Antenore, Padua ; Galleria Torbandena, Trieste
  • 1973 “Les Nus rouges et après”, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
  • 1973 Bucharest (traveling exhibition)
  • 1984 “Le rendez-Vous d'Antibes”, Picasso Museum, Antibes

Sources and literature

  • XXIV Biennale di Venezia . Edizioni Serenissima, Venice 1948.
  • Raymond Nacenta: La Scuola di Parigi. Istituto Geografico de Agostini, Novara 1960.
  • Pignon. 50 peintures from 1936 to 1962 . Galerie de France, Paris 1962.
  • Il collezionista d'Arte Moderna. Annuario della vita artistica italiana . Giulio Bolaffi Editore, Turin 1962.
  • Pier Carlo Santini (Ed.): Il paesaggio nella pittura contemporanea. Electa Editrice, Venice 1971.
  • Pignon, I nudi . Edizioni Galleria Pace, Milan 1985.
  • Mario De Micheli: Pignon. Edizioni La Gradiva, 1985.
  • Pignon . Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais, Denoel, Paris 1985.
  • Lydia Harambourg: L'Ecole de Paris, 1945-1965. Ides & Calendes, Neuchâtel 1993, ISBN 2-8258-0048-1 .
  • Edouard Pignon, 50 peintures from 1936 to 1962 . Galerie de France, Paris (with a foreword by Édouard Pignon Sur la peinture et la réalité ).
  • Philippe Bouchet (Ed.): Edouard Pignon. Rétrospective. Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoom 1997, ISBN 2-902092-15-6 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Lille, Palais des Beaux Arts December 6, 1997 to March 1, 1998).

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personal data
SURNAME Pignon, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bully-les-Mines near Arras , France
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1993
Place of death Couture Boussey , France