| The Salon d'Automne is marked this year by major posthumous exhibitions: those of Othon Friesz, Pierre Girieud, CHarles Walch, Maurice Le Scouëzec, Péterelle, Albert Sardin (....)
Pierre Girieud, who was born in Marseille in 1876, was one of the most cultivated painters of his generation. He frequented poets. His early works show him very close to future big cats. With them he exhibits a Homage to Gauguin which we often pretend not to remember. He was always attracted by the decoration and leaves several which are very important. His admiration for the Sienese masters made him reconnect with classicism. And immediately he painted compositions full of style inspired especially by Provence and by Greece. His portraits are of a coldness full of nobility, his large naked figures of a beautiful purity and an austerity which overflows until his paintings of flowers. We will see among these his Praise for Naked Beauty, a work in which he seems to have found the way and above all the inspiration of the great masters. It was also a beautiful lithographer who devoted several albums to the ancient gods and goddesses. (....) |