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Copyright estate of Pierre Roy | | | Roy, Pierre (1880 - 1950) France
Le Café de la Marine, 1925
Oil on canvas; 72 x 50 x 2 cm Surrealism
UID 102-501
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Biography
French painter, stage designer and illustrator. After working temporarily in an architect's office in Nantes, Roy moved to Paris to study at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts where he did some designs for the Universal Exhibition in 1900. He studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and the Académie Julian. He exhibited for the first time in 1906 at the Salon of the Paris Society for the Fine Arts and, in 1907 and 1908 at the Salon des Indépendants. Around 1910, Pierre Roy came into contact with Fauvism and the circle of writers who supported the current, such as Apollinaire and Max Jacob. This association exerted a significant influence over the artist, leading him to abandon his previous academic style. In 1913, he met De Chirico who also had a great influence on his work. After the First World War, his artistic style went through a fundamental change and, around 1920, Roy joined the circle of artists who would later be associated with Surrealism. He took part in the first two exhibitions of this movement, at the Pierre Gallery in 1925 and the Surréliste Gallery in 1926. In May of this year, Roy had a one-man show at the Pierre Colle Gallery and, in 1928, he took part in the exhibition Le Surrélisme existe-t-il? at the Le Sacre du Printemps Gallery, also in Paris. Nonetheless, he was not mentioned in ´Le Surréalisme et la Peinture´ by André Breton, which begun his apparent distancing from the group. He became particularly popular in the United States and took part in the first two Surrealist exhibitions held there. In 1939, he went to Hawaii which was responsible for a certain exoticism present in his work from then on. He received a medal at the Advertising Art Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1934 and first prize in another exhibition of the same type in New York in 1940. He produced numerous stage designs for the theatre and ballet and illustrated various books.
Exhibitions
O Surrealismo Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Brazil 20-08-2001 ~ 28-10-2001
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal 12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 08-07-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Art in France 1860-1960: Realism MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil 15-05-2009 ~ 30-06-2009
Art in France 1860-1960: Realism, Porto Alegre MARGS, MUSEU DE ARTE DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL ADO MALAGOLI, Brazil 13-07-2009 ~ 30-08-2009
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism , 2005 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903026
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo – Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 9728902034
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003 Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira ISBN 9728705050
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742847
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