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Edouard Pignon
"Painting does not mean anything, it just wants to be."
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Edouard Pignon est mort le 14 mai 1993 dans sa maison de La Couture-Boussey (Normandie, Eure). Il avait 88 ans. Les obsèques de l’artiste se déroulèrent le vendredi 18 mai au cimetière Montparnasse où il fut inhumé. Une foule nombreuse d’amis et d’artistes vint témoigner de sa tristesse. L’ultime hommage fut rendu sous la forme d’une fleur déposée par chacun. Parmi les peintres étaient présents Pierre Alechinsky, Zao Wou Ki, Ladislas Kijno, Manessier, Chu Teh Chun, Zoran Music et bien d’autres encore. Le Parti Communiste français fut représenté par un membre du Comité central. En son hommage, nous déposons un brin de muguet.
"Un soldat a fait mon portrait. Il m'en a fait cadeau. Et j'ai été stupéfait par ce pouvoir de ressemblance. Il y avait là une grande puissance magique. Et elle m'a hanté. A la base de ma vie de peintre, il y a certainement le petit déclic de ce soldat. Je n'ai jamais su d'où il venait ni où il allait." - Edouard Pignon
"Je copiais des cartes postales, j'obligeais mon frère à se déshabiller pour poser, ou bien je copiais tout ce qui me tombait sous la main." - Edouard Pignon
"Chacun dans son œuvre a son Guernica. Delacroix a les siens. Velasquez a les siens. Le tien, c'est « L'ouvrier mort »." - Pablo Picasso
"La liberté que la rapidité de l'eau lui accorde domine tout cet art." - Jean Lescure
"Quand je commence la toile, je pars de dessins plus ou moins rapidement faits d'après nature, ou d'aquarelles, ou de crayons de couleur. Sur la toile, j'essaie de saisir une réalité infiniment plus complexe que dans les dessins. Les dessins sont des fragments de réalité." - Edouard Pignon
"Le musée fut mon université." - Edouard Pignon
Notes of biography
Edouard Pignon is born in 1905 in Bully-les-Mines (Pas-de-Calais, France). His childhood is difficult; he works in a mine, then in a plant from 1920 to 1927. He moves to Paris in 1927 and begins his studies at the Applied Arts School and in the Labour University.
His first solo exhibition is held in 1939 (Paris). Edouard Pignon joins the Communist Party in 1933. He is a resistance member during the Second World War. With Bazaine, Esteve, Lapicque, Le Moal and Manessier, Pignon is one of "Twenty painters of French tradition", who exhibits in Paris at the Braun Galery in 1941.
Throughout his career, Edouard Pignon practices a resolutely figurative painting, blaming abstract art to suppress the reality. The subjects of his paintings often evoke his political commitment, however, without practicing "socialist realism". Pignon declines his pictorial work in series (the rooster fights, the pushers of wheat, Divers, The large red bares, etc.), paintings, watercolors, giant ceramics-sculptures.
Man of character who wants to be free, Edouard Pignon, a friend of Picasso, married to the art critic Helen Parmelin, constantly refuses any commitment to any movement or academy. Artist always against the stream, primarily a colorist, his work is present in most major museums in France and abroad.
Edouard Pignon dies in 1993 in La Couture-Boussey (France). To help create a museum in Marles-les-Mines, Edouard Pignon donates forty of his paintings, drawings and lithographs, as well as works by his friend Picasso (In 1951-1952, Picasso and Pignon shared a workshop in Vallauris).
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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*« L'oeuvre gravé », Catalogue Musée - Galerie de la Seita, 1981
*« Edouard Pignon », C. R. en préparation, P. Bouchet, Paris
* « E. Pignon - Peintre céramiste à Vallauris / pittore ceramista a Vallauris », collectif, Ed. Centro Di, Florence, 2004
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « E. Pignon », H. Lefebvre, Le Musée de Poche, Ed. Georges Fall, 1956, rééd 1970
- « Pignon, touches en zigzag pour un portrait », H. Parmelin, Marval, 1987
- « Pignon en majesté », J.-L. Ferrier, Marval, 1990
- « Edouard Pignon », P. Bouchet, RMN, Paris, 1997
- « Edouard Pignon, rétrospective », cat. d'expo., Ed. Palais des beaux-arts de Lille, 1997
- « Edouard Pignon en pleine lumière », P. Bouchet, Mady Ménier, Ed. Actes Sud, 1999
- « Edouard Pignon », P. Bouchet, Ed. Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2004
- « E. P., du rythme entre les choses », coll., cat. d'expositions, Somogy Ed. d’art, 2005
- « Edouard Pignon », P. Bouchet, coll. Découvrons l'art, Ed. Cercle d'Art, 2007
- « Nu rouge », Frédéric Touchard, Ed. Arléa, Paris, 2012
To read from the artist :
- « Contre-courant », Jean-Louis Ferrier, Stock, 1974
- « Genèse d'un tableau », interview H. Parmelin, Ed. Galerie Beaubourg, 1984
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Stamp by Edouard Pignon
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
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A tribute to Edouard Pignon
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Edouard Pignon est mort le 14 mai 1993 dans sa maison de La Couture-Boussey (Normandie, Eure). Il avait 88 ans. Les obsèques de l’artiste se déroulèrent le vendredi 18 mai au cimetière Montparnasse où il fut inhumé. Une foule nombreuse d’amis et d’artistes vint témoigner de sa tristesse. L’ultime hommage fut rendu sous la forme d’une fleur déposée par chacun. Parmi les peintres étaient présents Pierre Alechinsky, Zao Wou Ki, Ladislas Kijno, Manessier, Chu Teh Chun, Zoran Music et bien d’autres encore. Le Parti Communiste français fut représenté par un membre du Comité central. En son hommage, nous déposons un brin de muguet.
"Un soldat a fait mon portrait. Il m'en a fait cadeau. Et j'ai été stupéfait par ce pouvoir de ressemblance. Il y avait là une grande puissance magique. Et elle m'a hanté. A la base de ma vie de peintre, il y a certainement le petit déclic de ce soldat. Je n'ai jamais su d'où il venait ni où il allait." - Edouard Pignon
"Je copiais des cartes postales, j'obligeais mon frère à se déshabiller pour poser, ou bien je copiais tout ce qui me tombait sous la main." - Edouard Pignon
"Chacun dans son œuvre a son Guernica. Delacroix a les siens. Velasquez a les siens. Le tien, c'est « L'ouvrier mort »." - Pablo Picasso
"La liberté que la rapidité de l'eau lui accorde domine tout cet art." - Jean Lescure
"Quand je commence la toile, je pars de dessins plus ou moins rapidement faits d'après nature, ou d'aquarelles, ou de crayons de couleur. Sur la toile, j'essaie de saisir une réalité infiniment plus complexe que dans les dessins. Les dessins sont des fragments de réalité." - Edouard Pignon
"Le musée fut mon université." - Edouard Pignon
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