Pierre Roy (painter)
Pierre Roy (10 August 1880 – 26 September 1950) was a French surrealist painter. He is known for his realistically painted compositions of ordinary objects in unexpected arrangements.
He was the eldest of four children of the secretary of the management board of the
In 1905, he decided to devote himself to painting, beginning in 1906 at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA), a painters collective. He exhibited in 1907, 1908, 1913 and 1914 at the Société des Artistes Indépendants. In 1925, he took part in the first exhibition by surrealist painters alongside Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso, and in 1926 had his first solo exhibition.[2] In 1933 he was appointed for five years as a naval artist.
An exhibition devoted to his work was held at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1935, and his work was displayed at the
In addition he created stage sets, several covers for Vogue magazine, and advertising posters.
His work is classed as surrealism, and is based on assemblages of everyday objects such as shells, vegetables and fruits, woollen reels, ears and seeds, eggs and ribbons arranged to create poetic images.
Work in public collections
- New York, Museum of Modern Art
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Still Life, 1938, oil on canvas, 35 × 27 cm AIC
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Metric System, c.1933, oil on canvas, 146 x 99 cm PMA
- Tate Modern, London
- Nantes, France, Musée des Beaux-arts
- Adrienne pêcheuse (Adrienne the Fisherwoman), 1919, oil on canvas, 52 × 35 cm History of Art
- Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne
- Une Journée à la campagne (A Day in the Countryside), 1931, oil on canvas, 33 x 55 cm History of Art
Sources
- ^ "Pierre Roy". History of Art. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ "Pierre Roy". Museu Coleção Berardo. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- Pierre Roy, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes et Somogy éditions d'art, Paris, 1994.
- Adam Biro and René Passeron, Dictionnaire général du surréalisme et de ses environs, Office du Livre, Fribourg, Switzerland and Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1982, p. 370.
- Nicolas Blondel, « Les Folies douces de Monsieur Roy », Beaux Arts magazine, No 132, March 1995, p. 86 to 91.
- Article based on a translation of the equivalent article on French Wikipedia