Pierre Paul GIRIEUD (1876-1948) - Lot 96

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Pierre Paul GIRIEUD (1876-1948) - Lot 96
Pierre Paul GIRIEUD (1876-1948) Self-portrait, 1925 Oil on panel. Signed lower right and dedicated to his friend Georges Dufrénoy, Pierre Girieud MCMXXV. (Small stains, frame damaged) 46 x 40 cm Related work: Self-portrait, 1924, listed in the artist's online catalog Pierre Paul Girieud (1876-1948) A self-taught artist of Provencal origin, Girieud lived near the Place du Tertre in Montmartre from 1900, where he frequented Marquet, Manguin, Camoin and Picasso. The entire artistic and literary avant-garde congregated at the Lapin Agile café, whose room was decorated with Picasso's Harlequin and a Parrot by Girieud, among other works. In Montmartre, creativity and avant-garde go hand in hand with potty imagination. Girieud, writer Roland Dorgelès and painter Boronali mystified the Salon des Indépendants by successfully exhibiting a canvas painted with a brush attached to a donkey's tail, entitled "Et le soleil s'endormit sur l'Adriatique" (1910)! The Salon d'Automne and Fauvism Administered by Matisse, Desvallières and Rouault, the Salon d'Automne, founded in 1903, welcomed the young guard in reaction against academic painting: the bold colors and extreme synthesis of the drawings of Matisse, Vlaminck, Derain and Marquet revolutionized painting. The movement was christened Fauvism. Girieud exhibited 4 paintings at the Salon d'Automne in 1905 among his friends. Supported by leading Parisian art dealers, he exhibited with Berthe Weill, Eugène Druet, Jacques Doucet, D. H. Kahweiller (the latter devoted a solo show to him in 1907, the year his gallery opened in Paris), Paul Rosenberg; in the Galerie Thanhauser in Munich and Flechtheim in Berlin. His friendship with Vassily Kandinsky from 1904 onwards facilitated links and exchanges between the German Expressionists and the French Fauves. In 1909, Girieud joined the Munich NKVM, chaired by Kandinsky. Thanks to three traveling exhibitions from 1909 to 1911, Girieud's work became widely known in Germany. Kandinsky commissions Girieud to write an article on the Sienese primitives and on Epinal images (the Russian avant-garde is very interested in popular images). In 1908, Girieud exhibits at the Salon de la Toison d'Or at the Tretiakhov Gallery in Moscow. One of his works was purchased by the collector Tchchoukine as early as 1906, during his tours of Parisian studios.
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