26,8" PIERRE TAL-COAT "Blue Vase" painting art printed on canvas
PIERRE TAL-COAT (1905–1985)
Title of artwork: "Blue Vase"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1933
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 26,8" or 68 cm.
Size: 21,7" x 15,7" (in) or 55 x 40 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Pierre Tal-Coat (real name Pierre Louis Jacob) was a French artist
considered to be one of the founders of Tachisme. He was born in 1905.
Initially an apprentice blacksmith, then the clerk for a notary, moulder and
ceramics painter, Pierrre Jacob draws from an early age. He studies art at the
Académie de la Grande-Chaumière between 1924 and 1926. In 1927, Tal-Coat’s first
exhibition is organized at the Galerie Fabre, and he uses the occasion to take
his pseudonym (meaning “face of wood” in Breton). From 1932 to 1939, he is a
member of Les Forces Nouvelles, a group that campaigns for a return to the
pictorial tradition “in an enthusiastic contact with nature”. In 1936, Tal-Coat
protests against the Spanish war through a series of paintings, The Massacres.
He abandons figurative work around 1945 and thereafter creates abstract works,
without, however, abandoning the close connection that his work has with
nature. His art-works will be shown in numerous exhibitions in museums and
galleries, mostly in France and Switzerland. Despite the financial difficulties
that will persist throughout his artistic life, Tal-Coat continues his work,
reclusive and determined. Pierre Tal-Coat dies in 1985 in Saint-Pierre-de
Bailleul (Eure, Normandy, France).
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