Ramon Pichot i Gironès
Ramon Pichot i Gironès , pronunciation : [ rəˈmom piˈtʃɔt ], (* 1871 in Barcelona , Catalonia , † March 1, 1925 in Paris ) was a Catalan-Spanish artist who initially painted in the Impressionist style and later joined Modernism .
life and work
Pichot was a member of the Catalan artist group Colla del Safrà (saffron group), which was founded in 1893 by Isidre Nonell and existed until 1896.
Pichot's first exhibition took place in Barcelona in 1894, a little later he exhibited there together with Ramon Casas i Carbó in the Sala Parés . In 1899 he had a successful exhibition in the artist bar Els Quatre Gats and another in Madrid, which showed drawings by people he had met on a trip. Pichot had numerous exhibitions in Paris showing Spanish subjects which were very popular in France at the time. Together with his friend Pablo Picasso , who, like him, was in Paris in 1900, he exhibited in Berthe Weill's Paris gallery in 1902 ; exhibitions followed, for example in the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne .
Pichot married in 1906 Germaine Gargallo , a known art model , the 1901 the suicide of Carlos Casagemas had triggered. He lived with her in a house called La Maison Rose on Montmartre , where he had his studio and Germaine ran a small bistro on the ground floor . It was close to the Paris Bateau-Lavoir , where Picasso had his studio. In 1908 he was a participant in the "Banquet for Rousseau" in the Bateau-Lavoir. Pichot left Paris after the First World War and moved back to Spain, but he often visited the city to buy books after becoming a bibliophile . On one such trip he died in Paris in 1925.
Pichot i Gironès was known as the early mentor of the young Salvador Dalí . Dalí met Pichot when he was ten years old in Cadaqués , Spain . The Pichot family had a summer house in Cadaqués. Works by Pichot are exhibited in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya , the Museu de Cadaqués and the Cau Ferrat in Sitges .
Pichot in Les Trois Danseuses
Picasso was shocked by Pichot's death and added to the painting Les Trois Danseuses ( The Three Dancers ), on which he was currently working, its symbolic portrait as a large black figure on the right and that of Germaine as a dancer on the left. Casagemas is supposed to embody the figure in the middle, who assumes the posture of a crucified one. Picasso later said that the work should actually have been entitled The Death of Pichot .
Illustrations
- Santiago Rusiñol : Fulls de la Vida , illustrated by Ramon Pichot i Gironès, 1898
Web links
- Ramon Pichot i Gironès in the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana (Catalan)
- Ramon Pichot i Gironès on artnet
- Pablo Picasso: Les Trois Danseuses , painting from 1925, oil on canvas, 215 cm × 142 cm, Tate Modern , London
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ramon Pichot on artnouveau.eu, accessed on May 13, 2014
- ^ John Richardson : A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 , pp. 276/77
- ^ John Richardson: A Life of Picasso I : p. 139 (online)
- ^ Germaine Pichot , geocities.ws, accessed May 13, 2014
- ↑ Quoted from the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana web link
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pichot i Gironès, Ramon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pitxot, Ramon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan-Spanish artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona Catalonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1925 |
| Place of death | Paris |