Pierre Pallut, Abstract Composition, 1972, Lithograph

Pierre Pallut

Original lithograph
Signed in pencil on the lower right corner
Numbered on 100 copies, 62/100
Copy on Arches vellum
Format 50 x 65 cm.
Excellent condition


Pierre Pallut was born in 1918 in Gommerville in Eure-et-Loir. He worked for a long time in the workshops of the Grande Chaumière in Paris, while never having received any real official teaching. After returning from the war in 1940, he discovered Van Gogh and Gauguin. However, it was for Renoir and Bonnard that he felt a determining enthusiasm. He contemplated and studied their paintings.
In Paris, he exhibited at the short-lived Salon des Moins de Trente Ans, at the Salon d'Automne, of which he was named a member in 1938, and at the Salon de Mai. In 1946-47, he participated in the group "Black is a color", presented at the Maeght Gallery in Paris by Jacques Kober. He rubs shoulders with Braque, Matisse, Bonnard, Manessier, Rouault, Geer Van de Velde, Atlan, etc.
Around 1950, he abandoned the exhibitions, but continued to work. In 1953, he collaborated with Braque in the realization of the three ceilings of the Salle des Etrusques in the Louvre Palace.
He resumed exhibitions around 1960. from 1962, he exhibited at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, of which he became a member in 1967. He also participated in other collective exhibitions abroad: "Art français" in Warsaw in 1948; "Art français" in Charlottenborg in 1950; "Douze peintres français" Douze peintres américains" in New York; "Young Painters" in 1952 in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow; in 1964 and 1966, Biennale de Menton; in 1965, "Hommage à Braque" in Paris.
Pierre Pallut also shows his works in personal exhibitions. The first one took place in 1948 at the Maeght Gallery in Paris. It is followed by many other exhibitions: in 1970, Centre culturel Maydieu in Paris; in 1972, in London, Prudhoe Gallery; in 1974, in Paris, Streaming Gallery; in 1976, Monique Delcourt in Valenciennes; in 1977, galerie du Centaure, in Cannes; in 1982, galerie Coard in Paris; in 1989, 1990 and 1994, in Paris, galerie Lambert Rouland.
In 1946, the Prix de la Jeune Peinture, awarded for the first time, was given to Pierre Pallut. Also for his first award, the Prix Fénéon was given to him in 1949.
Pierre Pallut painted still lifes and portraits, noted for the distinction of their color ranges. He also made wall decorations, such as the mosaic in La Ciotat in 1971, the kindergarten in Le Cannet in 1976.
The work of Pierre Pallut is split in its continuity. from 1948, the painter operates indeed a sudden evolution towards the abstraction. However, despite the abandonment of form, his abstract work is distinguished by a delicacy that remains from the first period of the painter and can be described as post-impressionism. from Klee, Pierre Pallut retains the freedom of language but does not forget Renoir. In this second period, he continues to pursue the iridescence of his own inner vision, now abstract.