Pierre Tal-Coat (1905-1985)

Aliases: Pierre Jacob; Pierre Louis Corentin Jacob; Pierre Jacob Tal Coat; ? Tal-Coat

Professions: Painter; Sculptor

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Pierre Tal-Coat Biography

(b Clohars-Carnoët, Finistère, 12 Dec 1905; d Saint-Pierre de Bailleul, Eure, 11 June 1985). French painter, printmaker and sculptor. He was self-taught as an artist, devoting himself from 1923 to painting, drawing and sculpture. In 1924 he worked as a porcelain painter in the faience factory at Quimper, but in 1925 he went to Paris to do his military service. There he was drawn into artistic circles. Taking as his pseudonym a Breton term meaning ‘wooden brow’, he worked first as a realist painter, joining the group FORCES NOUVELLES and taking part in their first exhibition in 1935 at the Galerie Billiet-Vorms in Paris. His portrait of Gertrude Stein (1935; Paris, H. Bénézit priv. col.) won him the Prix Paul Guillaume in 1935. He assimilated the influence of Picasso in a series of paintings concerning the Spanish Civil War entitled Massacres (1936–7, e.g. Massacre , 1936; Neuilly, M. Lafaille priv. col., see 1976 exh. cat., p. 17), and of Matisse in the broad brushwork and fluid outline drawing of such paintings as On the Table (1944; Paris, priv. col., see 1976 exh. cat., p. 62). For a brief period, for example in Cock and Hen in the Studio (1946; Paris, priv. col., see 1976 exh. cat., p. 63), he adopted a more rigorously geometric framework for his compositions, strengthened perhaps by his consciousness of the heritage of Cézanne during his regular extended visits to Aix-en-Provence between 1940 and 1956.

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