Pierre Paul GIRIEUD (1876-1948) - Lot 98

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Pierre Paul GIRIEUD (1876-1948) - Lot 98
Pierre Paul GIRIEUD (1876-1948) Afternoon in Provence, 1920 Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. Missing, accidents, holes, restoration. 90 x 130 cm Provenance: in the family of the painter Georges Dufrenoy, a friend of Girieud. Exhibitions: Galerie Rosenberg, Paris, 1920; Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1920; Galerie Charet, Paris, 1925. Bibliography: Les Arts (n° spécial) Salon d'Automne, 1920; L'Imagier, 1920; Camille Le Senne, La France, le salon d'Automne 18/10/1920; Albert Enlade, L'amour de l'Art, 1922; H. Wilmet, Pierre Girieud, Galerie Charet, 1925; Gabriel Mourey, Le Flambeau, 31/03/1925; Gabriel Mourey, Le Feu Pierre Girieud, peintre de la Provence, 1925 Our painting is reproduced on the reference site (www.pierregirieud) under the title Après-midi provinciale, 1920 (erroneously listed as held at the Musée national d'art moderne in Paris). Pierre Paul Girieud (1876-1948) Of Provençal origin and self-taught, 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 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. This 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 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, when he toured Parisian studios.
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