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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



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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