Detailed card of bibliography speaking of Girieud

Rouvier C. - "Rétrospective Pierre Girieud à la Tartane (Retrospective of Pierre Girieud in the Tartane)"
Le Provençal---

-Marseille
october 1974
Contained about Girieud
Although born in Riez, in the Alps, on June 17, 1876, Pierre Girieud readily said that he was Marseillais, when he did not pretend to be Cassidain. It is therefore curious to say the least that painting is better known in Paris than in Marseille. It is true that the last exhibition in our city dates back to 1912. This means that the retrospective presented to us, until October 31, La Tartane, 30, rue Saint-Sens, was essential. Through some thirty canvases, drawings and engravings from all eras, representing half a century of painting, we can remarkably follow the evolution of Pierre Girieud. He appears to us as a classical artist, who knew how to adapt without ever forcing his talent to various currents of painting of his time. His first exhibition, he presented it in 1901, at the College of Modern Esthetics, alongside Picasso. From the following year, he regularly hooked up with the Independents and with Berthe Weill with the Fauves. The canvas he presented to the Independents in 1905 The Temptation of Saint Anthony, strongly inspired by Gauguin, has a story: sent to Moscow, it had to be covered in white by the Tsar's censorship. Having bought it, the painter spent days cleaning it and never left it. After several stays in Italy, Pierre Girieud moved to Cassis in 1906, where he met Braque, Matisse, Derain and Friesz. After a trip to Siena, the Italian Primitives will help him deliver from the influence of Gauguin. It was in 1912 that he returned to Maseille to settle at No. 12 Quai de Rive Neuve. It was then that he organized with his friends the famous - Salon de Mai - where Cézanne, Renoir, Bonnard, Marquet, Signac, Rouault exhibited .... Only a bust of Rodin was acquired by a Marseille amateur. After having made war on the front, Pierre Girieud will undertake an important decorative work and illustrate many works of his friends Carco, Dorgelès, Mac Orland, Bosco, Paul Fort, Gasquet and Giono. Twelve of his decorative panels for the University of Poitiers were exhibited in 1931 at the Musée de l'Orangerie. Pierre Girieud was to die on December 26, 1948 at the Maison des Artistes in Nogent-sur-Marne. The greatest Parisian critics of the time all devoted articles and studies that were extremely complimentary for Girieud's work. The drawings and engravings exhibited at La Tartane reveal a great designer with a line that is concise, flexible and full of decision. In the landscapes, the painter knew how to superbly translate the emotion which he felt in front of nature. An exhibition to see and review

cited painting of Pierre Girieud